New CFI

Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...

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CP-ASEL, instrument, CFI

Steven Barnes wrote:
Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...


Congratulations, very cool! Where are you going with your ratings? What
do you hope to do?

KC

Hopefully make enough to pay for the CFI checkride....

I'm a computer programmer, so I have no aspirations to build time for the
airlines. To darn old. I'd love to teach full time, but can't take the cut
in pay. :-)
I just want to teach in our flying club & help my CFII a little with his
10dayinstrument.com business. I'm studying for the CFII written at the
moment. Amazing the things you forget since you get the IFR rating.


"Kevin Clarke" wrote in message
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Steven Barnes wrote:
Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride
the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...


Congratulations, very cool! Where are you going with your ratings? What
do you hope to do?

KC

Steven Barnes wrote:
Hopefully make enough to pay for the CFI checkride....

I'm a computer programmer, so I have no aspirations to build time for the
airlines. To darn old. I'd love to teach full time, but can't take the cut
in pay. :-)
I just want to teach in our flying club & help my CFII a little with his
10dayinstrument.com business. I'm studying for the CFII written at the
moment. Amazing the things you forget since you get the IFR rating.

Congratulations, its not a trivial rating to get. I used to be a
computer geek myself before throwing in the towell a few years
back.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:57:06 -0800, Steven Barnes wrote
(in article ):

Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...



Fantastic! Congratulations.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

congrats...

but would I fly with a CFI with a call sign "crash"??
just kidding.. as computer programmer... just tell them it's the programs
that crash.. not the airplane

BT
CFI-G

"Steven Barnes" wrote in message
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Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride
the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...

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CP-ASEL, instrument, CFI

Congrats. Steven. Some day I'd like to do the same...seriously
considering starting on the commercial certificate sometime this year.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

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Some day I'd like to do the same...seriously considering starting on the
commercial certificate sometime this year.
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

DO IT Jack! The Commercial is a lot of fun, the CFI is some good work,
but nothing too daunting (although MY checkride with the FSDO was one long
ordeal g), heck, if even I can do it, you will have no problems! lol

I'm going into my 6 month (full-timer) at my CFI gig and I have to tell you,
that every day that I walk out to the field to instruct I just feel so
'blessed' and fortunate - it is one heck of a responsibility but more
rewarding than I can even begin to communicate to you. Judging by your
posts and correspondence I'm sure you will find the 'pearl beyond measure'
in instructing as well. I still do my I.T. work on most evenings (that I'm
not doing night flights with students) and the weekends, so I think I've
struck a good balance between my two 'worlds'. My clients have actually
responded well to having evening and weekend access to me, now, despite
having lost access to me on most weekdays. Originally I was going to go at
the flight instructing part-time, but after that whole brush with breast
cancer back in 04 it really started me thinking about how important it is to
'seize the day'. So I have

Either way; part-time or full-time, Jack,, you will find flight instructing
is not only a 'gift' to others but one exceptionally soul-enriching 'gift'
to yourself, as well. During my student's solos, first solo cross-country
flights, and passing their checkride - it is hard to tell who is enjoying it
the most as I seem to be getting as much a kick out of their accomplishment
and the stories that follow as they do!
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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman
CFI-A, CP-ASEL-IA

Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -
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"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

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Thanks Cecil.

Yeah, it's all just a matter of time and money :-) It's been right at a
year since getting my instrument rating so I figure I've had the right
amount of time off from training. One thing I plan to do is learn a
fair amount of the maneuvers from a partner who is currently in the
process of getting his commercial certificate. So...we'll see. If I
can start on the commercial certificate sometime in '07, that will be a
good thing.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:57:06 -0800, Steven Barnes wrote
(in article ):

Well, I finally passed my CFI checkride last Sunday! I started the ride the
week before, but clouds ceilings kept us from doing most of the airwork.
Whew. Now I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to head out to the
airport again. :-)

On to the CFII...



Or the MEI. Then YOU get to decide who the real pilots are (unlike some guys
who have never flown an airplane).

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor