Patrick Smith admits small planes are unpleasant

rq3 writes:

So the guy doesn't like his job, and wishes he was on the beach. Yawn.
Glad he wasn't my instructor.

How many flight instructors like their job? How many are just impatiently
trying to build hours so that they can work as airline pilots one day?

The current arrangement has always bothered me, since it seems to ensure that
the people teaching new pilots are always people without an interest in
teaching, who are just passing through a revolving door.

Another couple of thousand feet and a headset he would have flying cool,
calm, and quiet.

Maybe that wasn't practical at the time.

Mxsmanic wrote:
How many flight instructors like their job?

Of the 5 CFIs I've already met and can name (Rena, King, Mark, Martin,
Dorothy,) I believe all of them enjoy teaching. Some I know have said as
much. These are the outfits they are connected with:

http://www.kpflight.com/coburgtraining.htm
http://www.abouttimeaviation.com/contact.html
http://www.takewinginc.com/aboutus.html

How many are just
impatiently trying to build hours so that they can work as airline
pilots one day?

None of the one I know of are "building time." Two more local CFIs, who I
expect to eventually meet, Paul and Jess, have been teaching for about 20
years, each. If they have plans for airline work they seem to be mighty
slow about it.

The current arrangement has always bothered me, since it seems to
ensure that the people teaching new pilots are always people without
an interest in teaching, who are just passing through a revolving
door.

I believe you are simply parroting claims made by other people elsewhere.

Another couple of thousand feet and a headset he would have flying
cool, calm, and quiet.

Maybe that wasn't practical at the time.

The author makes the mistake of assuming everyone else shares his values
and preferences.

Jim Logajan writes:

None of the one I know of are "building time." Two more local CFIs, who I
expect to eventually meet, Paul and Jess, have been teaching for about 20
years, each. If they have plans for airline work they seem to be mighty
slow about it.

I hope that is the norm rather than the exception. I wouldn't want to learn
from a CFI who had not made a career of instruction.

The author makes the mistake of assuming everyone else shares his values
and preferences.

Lots of people make that mistake, as he points out himself in reference to
other pilots.

Mxsmanic wrote:

How many flight instructors like their job? How many are just impatiently
trying to build hours so that they can work as airline pilots one day?

From observation of what goes on at the local GA airports, which you should
try sometimes instead of just pulling stuff out of your ass, instructors
are about evenly divided between young guys looking to build time and older
guys who just like aviation.

And then there is the few middle aged guys who have a day job and instruct
on weekends and evenings because they like aviation.


--
Jim Pennino

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On Jul 30, 11:18*am, wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:

How many flight instructors like their job? How many are just impatiently
trying to build hours so that they can work as airline pilots one day?

From observation of what goes on at the local GA airports, which you should
try sometimes instead of just pulling stuff out of your ass, instructors
are about evenly divided between young guys looking to build time and older
guys who just like aviation.

And then there is the few middle aged guys who have a day job and instruct
on weekends and evenings because they like aviation.

--
Jim Pennino

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The CFII we like is ex USAF, now flies for a major carrier, and enjoys
instructing. Could not ask for better (although he is the first CFII I
ever knew who insisted I wear a parachute for unusual attitude
recovery practice in his personal airplane (it was NOT an M20J!).