Rob is cool

[cjsmith]

Rob showed me his logbook yesterday evening. It has entries in a brand new column: As Flight Instructor. Two point eight hours yesterday. He's a working flight instructor now!

One lesson was a very first lesson for a primary student. The other was a second opinion for a guy who wanted to know if he was ready for his own CFI checkride.

Rob was very tired. He says "Everything you hear is right: they all try to kill you."

I'm proud of him.

Comments

[yoak.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine recently had the opposite problem... the flight instructor tried to kill him. My friend is a Very Experienced pilot having done it in the military. He let all certifications and such pass after he quit that, but recently decided it would be fun to fly again. To do so, he had to go through classes in the normal fashion. On one flight over the Mojave, the engine quit. Thankfully he knew just what to do and brought it down safely, but instead of leaping to handle the situation or even providing sound advice, the instructor panicked, ironically not primarily about getting down safely, but instead about the impact this incident would have on his future ability to be an instructor. My friend had to quiet him down in addition to handling the emergency itself. Bad. This was a relatively "beginner" class, and could have been quite disasterous with a student that had no knowledge or experience beyond what is minimally required to have been there.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yikes. Sounds to me like that instructor had absolutely no business being an instructor. Heck, I'd say I'd rather not even be his passenger. That's pretty bad.