Best place just to do a quick check in southern Ont

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Airplanes aren't free Beef. I suppose you could petition our Federal government to tax us more for an increased feeling of security.

[Beefitarian]

Nobody know that planes cost money more than I do.

As for the Canadian tax payer we have better things to buy like boats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Steamship_Lines

[Shiny Side Up]

How often do you really deal with pilots drawn from the unwashed masses?

As infrequently as possible, SSU. I really prefer to only do advanced training.

Why?

Budd puts it in some good words.

[Colonel Sanders]

A group of local instructors would, in fact, snicker at his insistence that his students' patterns be tight, the touch downs be on the numbers, the speed right, the ball centered. They saw him as a near-dinosaur, a stick-and-rudder throw-back.

+1

[Shiny Side Up]

Its tough to teach people when you feel it just isn't as important to them as it is to you.

There is nothing worse than investing of yourself in teaching something, anything, and having students eye you with that silly grin which says, just because you think something is important doesn't mean it should also be important to them. Obviously, the preponderance of students absolutely want to learn and usually they make up for the others. But not always. Mert apparently hit a too-long streak of those who saw learning to fly as a take-it-or-leave-it alternative to golf.

Hits the mark pretty close to home.

[burninggoats]

And this is why I'm done.

I just finished my last day (for now, i'm open to returning) of instructing. Moving up, moving on. I am very happy I decided to go the route of instructing, as I learned much much more than I ever though I would. But that article is exactly why I am very happy to be moving to a 703 job. I have tremendous respect for anyone who has taught as a career because after 3 years I am starting to lose the motivation. Too many students who don't care as much as I do, or who think they know better than me, and only do things my way so that I will let them move on to the next thing, only to walk away from the lesson never planning to use that knowledge again. I have always said that if I could pick my students I may never leave instructing, but there is just too many people, too long of a streak, of people who don't care. I think I need to say it again. HUGE respect for everyone who has instructed for 5, 10, 15+ years. You are far more patient than me.

So I'm done. And i'm very excited to be back in a place where I pretty much know nothing, and get to learn everything about a new part of the industry, a new company, a completely different kind of flying. I guess the trick is to not be the kind of student that I found so frustrating.

[Colonel Sanders]

I just finished my last day of instructing. Moving up, moving on

Congratulations! It sounds like you paid your dues - 3 years. And it also sounds like you're kind of burned out on instructing, which happens. But even though you're sick of instructing right now, down the road you will find it helpful experience.

if I could pick my students I may never leave instructing

There's the answer right there. Students don't understand I am investing my precious time in them, so I want to choose the worthwhile ones.

HUGE respect for everyone who has instructed for 5, 10, 15+ years

I've instructed for 20 years now, and I suspect I'll instruct for another 30. In that time, I've saved a lot of airframes, and that makes it all worthwhile. There's an awful lot of people that seem to deeply hate me for it, but that's ok. Life is not a popularity contest. Not everyone is Bill Clinton. Do things for your own reasons, not to please other people.

[Shiny Side Up]

I just finished my last day (for now, i'm open to returning) of instructing.

Congrats man, don't look back, there's just crazy people in the rear view mirror.

[burninggoats]

Thanks!

SSU, does this mean I shouldn't come back to visit and laugh at the local mooney pilots ?

[pile_it]

It had been a couple years since I had flown a light single, and I was beginning to miss it. I decided recently to get checked out at one of the local FTUs to rent a 172.

The instructor was a very green Class IV, who had his own little box, where if anything was done outside of his box, it was considered by him to be wrong. Though it was annoying, I knew that it was simply just inexperience. I remember being a "green" class IV at one point and being very similar that way myself. It was simply a matter of wanting to do the best job possible, with little experience to go by at the time. So, I decided to put my ego aside, and just let him do his thing.

[Shiny Side Up]

Thanks!

SSU, does this mean I shouldn't come back to visit and laugh at the local mooney pilots ?

You're always welcome to come and visit, though don't blame me if you get cornered by one of the institution escapees if you do. Some of them have been looking for you. I realise that describes a lot of people you know, I can see why CG got as far away as he could.