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How to find a CFII?
I am ready to start working on my IFR training. I took an intensive
weekend crash course to pass the written and got a 93%, so that's out of the way. My CFI for my private was fabulous, but he was a real drill sergeant. He's also no longer in the area. I have read Joe Campbell's IFR Diary and that really isn't how I want to learn this time around. Maybe I'm wrong, but I want a cool, calm, collected, thinking man's instructor. Maybe it will take me longer than getting dropped into the war zone, but for me I think it will be a better way to go. I fly out of Centennial (APA) in Denver, CO. There are a couple of large flight schools on the field with 30+ CFII's each plus a couple of smaller clubs. My PPL examiner suggested a couple. How do you go about finding a good one? I am thinking about starting in a simulator for ten or so hours. I thought I might try 5 instructors at two hours each and see how it goes. Any thoughts? |
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Start with the end result and work backwards.... talk to pilots that you
believe are good IFR pilots and ask them for CFII references. You already hit on a good source, your examiner, talk to him/her some more. Jim |
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I'm at KBJC (Jeffco, Colorado). If you can find a really good instrument
instructor in the area, please let me know. wrote in message ups.com... I am ready to start working on my IFR training. I took an intensive weekend crash course to pass the written and got a 93%, so that's out of the way. My CFI for my private was fabulous, but he was a real drill sergeant. He's also no longer in the area. I have read Joe Campbell's IFR Diary and that really isn't how I want to learn this time around. Maybe I'm wrong, but I want a cool, calm, collected, thinking man's instructor. Maybe it will take me longer than getting dropped into the war zone, but for me I think it will be a better way to go. I fly out of Centennial (APA) in Denver, CO. There are a couple of large flight schools on the field with 30+ CFII's each plus a couple of smaller clubs. My PPL examiner suggested a couple. How do you go about finding a good one? I am thinking about starting in a simulator for ten or so hours. I thought I might try 5 instructors at two hours each and see how it goes. Any thoughts? |
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When you interview the instructors, find out how much time they have in
actual. From there, use the same criteria you would for any instructor - teaching style, availability, etc. You'll do yourself a big favor though if you fly with someone experienced in real conditions. Helen |
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My criterion for instructors, PPL, IA, and Commercial was minimum 1000 hours and
the majority being "real" flying experience -- IMC, ice, flying into high traffic airports and areas like ORD, good war stories ... etc. -- not just CFI experience. I can own and read the same books that the 250-hour wonders have read. I don't need an instructor for that. I need an instructor to teach me from his experience with reality. I may have missed some good young instructors but I have not regretted taking that approach. On 3/2/05 6:09 PM, Helen Woods wrote the following: When you interview the instructors, find out how much time they have in actual. From there, use the same criteria you would for any instructor - teaching style, availability, etc. You'll do yourself a big favor though if you fly with someone experienced in real conditions. Helen |
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"Roy Smith" wrote in message ... wrote: Finding the best instructor in the western hemisphere is a difficult task. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult. Several people who claim to fit that description are frequent contributors to this newsgroup. :-) It Depends if you have been in aviation 30 years or 1 year. Your connections and contacts will not be as vast only being in aviation for 1 year, so its easy for the people that have been in aviation for 30 years to say it's not that difficult. |
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NW_PILOT wrote:
"Roy Smith" wrote in message wrote: Finding the best instructor in the western hemisphere is a difficult task. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult. Several people who claim to fit that description are frequent contributors to this newsgroup. :-) It Depends if you have been in aviation 30 years or 1 year. Your connections and contacts will not be as vast only being in aviation for 1 year, so its easy for the people that have been in aviation for 30 years to say it's not that difficult. I do believe that NW_PILOT missed the smiley at the end of Roy's response. (*chortle*) |
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There is a mix. I honestly believe there are a lot of instrument rated
pilots out there that are afraid to actually fly in IMC because their CFIIs were too easy on them. For instrument training, more than any other type of training, student *really* need to feel that their CFII has taken them beyond what they will need. Your CFII should be giving you distractions, having you change approaches as you dig for charts, messing up radio freq etc. From the pilots I've flown with, I'd say at least 50% of the instrument rated pilots had CFIIs that were too soft on them and, as a result, they are not confident in the clouds. -Robert, CFI |
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