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

[harpwolf.livejournal.com]

Go Rob! That's very cool. What does he fly?
And how's your flying coming? Can Rob instruct you or is that like a bad plan? :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll forward the congrats! He flies single-engine aircraft, both land planes and seaplanes. He may look for his multi-engine license next.

I am licensed in airplanes and gliders (I joke that in FAA-speak that's "Airplane, Single Engine Land" and "Airplane, No Engine Land"). His involvement in flying is sorta kinda my fault. :-)

(To answer the other question, we wouldn't work well as instructor and student. He can be my boss at work; we can do a few other weird things; but instruction, no, we just don't do well with that one. So we'll stay away from attempting it in aircraft.)