I walked into a flight school the other day in denver to get some info on training and the cfi that was answering my questions acted like he was to good to answer anything. I just hate when pilots act like that because it gives us a bad rep. If i had 20,000 flight hours i still would not be a dick. Im just wondering why this guy doesnt think his **** dont stink? Just wondering if anybody else no's what im talking about.

 

true true...I'd say that's really with just about any profession, though. Anyone who gets a lot of experience starts to get a big head, from what I've witnessed...

 

The 4 or 5 times I have checked out FBO's to start my flight training at, I always wanted to speak directly to the chief pilot/instructor. I felt like they would be a much better resource that would help to give me a more complete picture of the atmosphere than a CFI who may only see things from their point of view. However, that's still no excuse for a CFI to be disrespectful and cocky to you. You think the guy would be extremely helpful and enthusiastic about answering your questions in anticipation of the fact that he could possibly get you as as a new student coming his way.
However in answering your question, I am well aware of what you are talking about. I've come across a few of these instructors myself who seem to have that "i'm above you" mentality and i've had conversations in a group setting with some of these guys along with observing conversations with some other folks and I noticed they often gave the "you're an idiot" glare.
I don't know how many other flight training options you have available to you out in the Denver area, but if you are adamant about finding out more about this place, I would set up a time to meet with the chief pilot or whoever runs the show and when addressing your concerns bring up the fact that the CFI you were talking to was a duche and that if you continue to get treated this way, you'll take your business elsewhere.

 

Try going elsewhere. CFI's are people, just like anyone else. In the past I was able to find friendly, humble flight instructors who were more like the aviation professionals they should be than the drill seargent you describe. I also ran across one or two that were difficult and uncaring; happens in all fields. One in particular was arrogant and unable to teach very well. I let him go and was happy I did so. Keep searching. Good luck!

 

Maybe the guys you spoke with is burned out on instructing. It's funny how some folks think they need to get with the instructor with a zillion hours, when often the newer CFI's are more exited and enthusiastic about their jobs.

 

If he's airline-bound, he'll have his rear end handed to him in training and that attitude just might change.

 

I dont disagree with you about some guys with lots of experience .Just not all of them. Some high time"experienced"guys are great guys and want to help the new guys succeed. FLY SAFE T.C.

 

ALL the members of my schools flight team are like that. They have the attitude like: "I'm 19 years old, I have my private with 100 hours, and am on the flight team. I'm better than every one else 'cause my poo smells like daisies." These are the only pilots that I don't like, and am making me question if I should continue or not towards my goals; if the whole professional pilot community if full of D-bags like these. I find that the best pilots that are good to be around are those who are humble about their qualifications.

 

Did he have a big watch, and Ray Ban aviators to go with the big attitude. Relax he's compensating for not having a girlfriend that will put up with his small reproductive organ. The guys that are experienced and humble are usually the guys you are going to learn the most from. The guys at that age that are like that become the airline pilots that have no life two wives and the social skills of a douche bag. The last sentence was not the best in the grammatical sense, but I was on a rant.

 

Yeah, these people tend to really get under my skin as well. Especially since the majority of them are younger than me. Experience doesn't always equal attitude though.

At my school we have an instructor that has more instruction given/flight hours in a C-152 than any other known person (25,000+ as of a couple of years ago in the 152 and 30,000+ TT). He's been instructed since the seventies and is probably the most humble pilot around the campus. Whenever the local news station came by to do a story on him all the other instructors and pilots sung his praise about his flying abilities and when questioned about it he just kind of smiled and said "Aw shucks... They didn't say that, I'm not as good as they try to make me out to be.". The man has probably forgotten more about aviation than I could ever hope to learn and yet is humble in his teaching and his mannerisms, and then you get these people that literally have a fraction of a percent of his experience and they think that they are God's gift to aviation.