Thieving student
06-25-2009 | 07:36 AM
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Hope you get it back buddy. Back when I was CFI'ng, I had my model airplane that I used during pre/post briefs stolen. When a student bought me a Matchbox NWA 747-400, that was stolen too. Just used the hands from then on.
06-25-2009 | 07:53 AM
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Yea, having your name on everything helps. It is a deterrent, not a prevention. Honest people respect your property, criminals do not.
06-25-2009 | 09:09 AM
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Just report him to the chief flight instructor. If you charge him for extra, you could get in trouble, and if you hand him off to another instructor, you're just passing on a troubled student to be someone else's problem. This guy just doesn't belong in your flight school or anywhere near an airplane.
That's a really great book, though, and well-worth buying another copy. I always write my name in black sharpie ink along the sides of my books across all the pages so that it can't be removed.
That's a really great book, though, and well-worth buying another copy. I always write my name in black sharpie ink along the sides of my books across all the pages so that it can't be removed.
06-25-2009 | 10:11 AM
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Im going to go out in another direction here, I believe this is all your fault. As an instructor, a look from you should strike fear into the deepest parts of their soul. Had you accomplished this goal early on he would not have dared touch your book for the fear that you might push him out the storm window on some lesson when he was under the foggles, ever so slightly saving said foggles from hurtling to the ground with him, all the while screaming like a madman at him that if he stole the book he should have read it and learned to fly!!!! 
06-25-2009 | 07:02 PM
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Im going to go out in another direction here, I believe this is all your fault. As an instructor, a look from you should strike fear into the deepest parts of their soul. Had you accomplished this goal early on he would not have dared touch your book for the fear that you might push him out the storm window on some lesson when he was under the foggles, ever so slightly saving said foggles from hurtling to the ground with him, all the while screaming like a madman at him that if he stole the book he should have read it and learned to fly!!!!
That's it! I'm outta here. Forget pilots and their dreams and trying to help them out. I'm off to join a commune in Jamaica where beer is cheep and you can fly a plane without a certificate.
06-25-2009 | 09:24 PM
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I recently bought an aviation book, brought it to the flight school I teach at and placed it on my desk. The very same day, the book went missing and I have a very strong feeling that one of my students stole it. A couple of days later I asked this student if he “had seen a book on my desk-” but before I could finish my sentence the student responded with, “I didn’t take no book”.
As a CFI, how would you address this situation?
I want to just say, “I know you have my book. Give it back.” And if he doesn't give it back, I'll kick him in the shins.
I really want my book back and I am finding it difficult to work with him knowing he stole from me.
As a CFI, how would you address this situation?
I want to just say, “I know you have my book. Give it back.” And if he doesn't give it back, I'll kick him in the shins.
I really want my book back and I am finding it difficult to work with him knowing he stole from me.
06-26-2009 | 09:59 AM
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