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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.
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.
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Just a note: I'm probably one of the more experienced non-pilots you'll ever meet. My dad was a pilot, and we had a partnership in a small plane when I was young. I've logged more hours in the air in a small plane than the vast majority of folks who don't actually fly themselves. I have flown a plane a couple of times (up in the air only, of course, with my dad right beside me!), both engine and glider, so I do have some understanding of how it feels. For some reason, the "bug" never bit me, though. But there really is something special about being up in the air, flying around where no human was really designed to go, watching the clouds and the birds, and the ground rush by below. Congratulations to you both for pursuing (and catching!) your dreams of flight.
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Yeah, other than pilots or family of pilots, most folk don't spend much time in small planes. And very few of those have handled the controls of both a light plane and a glider.