It's like the frog in the pan of water on the stove. It becomes a self-perpetuating problem, exaggerated by each successive generation, and no one at the school even realizes it has become a problem.
So I don't begrudge anyone's decision to go that route.īut if just one CFI at that school starts teaching that you should extend downwind "just a bit" so you can have a slightly longer-than-normal final approach to get everything stabilized (as the FAA wants/requires), he's teaching 10-20 other future CFIs to do the same thing. It's the only way the schools can hire enough CFIs, and it's the only way the students can earn a (very meager) living and obtain the time they need to be able to fly for the airlines. They earned their Private, Commercial, Instrument, and CFI (or even CFII) at those schools in minimum time, flying with other CFIs who went through the same process, and evaluated by check airmen who are constantly exposed to the graduates of that program. The fact is that 95% or more of the CFIs at these ATP mills have spent their entire aviation career at those schools. We just awarded a $10,000 scholarship to one kid who just impresses the heck out of me! So I do NOT believe that the "kids today" are the source of any problems. I'm the Young Eagles coordinator for our local EAA chapter, and many of the youngsters we get to fly with are amazing kids. There are, no doubt, some excellent CFIs that just happen to be young and low-time. I guess I derailed that (sorry with my rant about the two local training mills. I was trying to thank for renewing his CFI, so that he could train and mentor more pilots. Clearly I've offended you – and perhaps an entire generation of pilots – and that was not my intent. Some of the best flights I’ve had is with him! I’m here trying to make sure there’s other people for me and your kids to go out and fly with in 40 years in a tailwheel when everything else is fully automated in the Daly, I apologize. Bashing only makes things worse.Īll the luck to your kids! Attached is a picture of me and my dad when he gave me my final checkout in the t-6.
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It’s kinda up to us all to pull the young people in, and show them why we fly tight patterns and what it feels like to use full deflection of the controls. it’s that this niche is becoming harder and harder to become apart of. It’s not that I’m the only one that wants to fly taildraggers. ( is there a way to get stats about members and ages?!). I hope no one takes any disrespect from this, but I’m probably the youngest one in this group by years. These are ages 20 to even 45 year old career changes though, not just kids. But with 22 bucks an hour, bad weather, down airplanes, how could anyone stay a flight instructor forever?! After 1000 hours though, even the bad teachers are smart with knowledge and better with flying. Like many early jobs, it is a stepping stone. I'll give the damn thing to them if they stick it out.
For every guy like yourself there are 8 that are just waiting for "the call", and they'll hand their student load off on the next 260 hour wonder kid and not look back.Īs for keeping the plane in good condition for the next generation, my primary motiviation for reinstatement was to teach my three sons to fly. An old fart who has only been teaching in a C172 would be a pretty boring dude, you are correct.Ī 23 year old with 20 types under his/her belt who has passion for being a flight instructor is more of a unicorn than a regular occurrance. Truth is most people suck at teaching, or at least lack the compassion required to be good at it. It's not a generational thing, it's the nature of the ratings pilots earn. Sadly, Jim is correct in that many people who instruct only do it as a stepping stone. I even use his teaching methodology which is basically: If it's not going to bend the plane, get us killed or get my ticket pulled I will let my student hang themselves - plenty good if necessary. Truth is, he was very good and like most pilots I still hear his voice in my head at appropriate times. I even made reference to my 21 year old "punk a**" instructor in an earlier post. They were doing it 22 years ago when I learned to fly.
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