Wisdom is being able to spot these guys, avoid them like the plague and distinguish those traits you ought not emulate. Life sometimes is not about choosing right or wrong, but choosing the lesser evil. These people are everywhere, not just in aviation.

 

Those guys are full of dookie! It,s really pathetic to have to be around them. FLY SAFE T.C.

 

I think part of the problem with attitude comes from the industry itself. You are constantly being told, "You need 50 hours to fly the Skylane. You need 250 to check out in the Seminole. You need 1200 to fly VFR SE charter. You need 1500 for an ATP."

Your whole career you are being told you don't have enough ________. After a while you get the time or experience and, of course, you feel superior. (At least superior to the tards without _______)

Sometimes it takes an incident to humble us. Hopefully we learn from the mistakes of others.

 

I don't like pilots who don't wear deodorant! They smell bad!

 

Ask the holier than thou CFI if he/she has a High Altitude Endorsement to ride that high horse he/she's on.

 

and what would that prove?

 

wouldn't prove anything but I heard it used once as an exit line and it made me laugh so hard Mr. Pibb came out my nose.

 

Some people (especially airline/military bound) all think they are above their certificate.....these are usually the ones with low pass rates!!!

 

Dude I know exactly what you're talking about. When I was at OSU for a short period of time it was a windy day but I went and got the clip board for the aircraft thinking it'd be a good day to practice x-winds and stuff. This CFI d-bag looked at me and yelled "WHAT is the X-WIND LIMITATION for the airplane?" I was training in the C-152 at the time and i'm like uhm 12 knots direct 90 degrees but since there are 3 runways at OSU I doubt we'd have a direct 90 degree x-wind on take off.

There was just this really long awkward pause in the FBO and everybody was just kinda starring at me because of the scene this tool made.

I'll never forget this dude because i see his type from time to time around FBOs. He had this big "bling" watch with all these functions. And then he had the dorkiest headsets I've ever seen. It was one of those noise cancellation things and the ear pieces looked like these huge ear muffs lol. Oh yes and don't forget the designer Ray Ban Black Pearl aviators allong with the matching case he had affixed to his belt. The more I meet these types of dudes I find that they are insecure about something and always seem to be hiding something. Not sure if that makes sense or not?

My CFI causually walked in (totally awesome guy IP for Comair now) and we went out and did x-wind work.

 

Since flight instructing is one of the few entry level jobs available for pilots, people who aren't good teachers get saddled with having to do it. I've known several good pilots and friends that didn't make good instructors. But, you have to "rack up the hours" somehow, so you instruct.

One thing that instructors, especially at larger flight schools, tend to forget is that students are customers. They are paying for instruction, not abuse. Perhaps if students directly paid there instructor they would realize that.

As a student don't put up with that. I didn't. If you don't like your instructor get a different one. If the school won't switch you, switch schools. If they can't make money with that instructor, they will eventually get rid of him/her.

And, just be aware there are students with those attitudes, too. Just Friday I had to contend with another instructor's student who swore up and down he was ready for a PPL checkride. This was the same student who flew us into a cloud as he was explaining cloud and visibility requirements for Class E airspace, didn't know where the static port on the plane was, and claimed he had never been shown how to do weight and balance.