Jim Burns wrote:
P.S.
Congratulations on completing your CFI certificate. When you have time, I'm
sure that everyone would love to hear about your training and checkride!
Jim
Thanks. I own a plane which I fly a fair amount and I'm also a part time
Forestry pilot so I wanted to keep any flight training hours separately to
make it easier to keep track of lessons flights with students. To me it
makes sense... like why we create different folders for different stuff on
our computers. Its all disk space, but organizing things makes it easier
to find.

I actuallt started working on the CFI 3 years ago.. took the written for
CFI, CFII and AGI but switched jobs/careers and moved so it got put on
hold. HAd to retake the CFI written because it had expired. I worked with
a couple of local CFIs and got signed off for the practical. Had to go
through the FSDO and got to do it with some FAA guys. For me, that part
was pretty stressful (they scrutinized the aircraft up and down, but
that's another story). Didn't perform the short field and soft field
landings up to snuff enough for the examiner so I had to redo them later.
(I actually spent minimal time on them so I wasn't suprised when they
didn't turn out very well!)