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Originally Posted by Windchill  Congrats on the IR ... I've finally started my push toward the rating. Why is UVSC making you change instructors? Good luck with the commercial training. |
In my opinion it basically boils down to managerial retardation. For a long time UVSC has hired a lot of instructors that were of "sub par" teaching ability.
Just this morning while I was waiting for the examiner a kid walked up to the dispatch and tried to check out a plane for a solo cross country and he didnt have a flight plan. They gave him a flight plan form and told him to fill it out. He came back not 5 minutes later with only three waypoints "Provo-SLC-Pocatello" without any headings, altitudes, leg distances, fuel burn, ETE.... NOTHING. The dispatcher then gave him a full 10 minute up and down explaination of good reasons why you need a flight plan to go on a flight. The kid said "someone told me I didn't need one".
Now I am not a CFI so I am not sure but isnt it the instructors responsibility, under the FAR, to review and approve a students flight plan prior to endorsing him to go on a solo cross country? Basically I am saying that there has been pervasive poor performance from students due to poor instruction and UVSC wants to correct that.
As of the beginning of the year there are now different instructing departments for each rating which have a cheif instructor. Instructors will be assigned to these "departments" and report to the cheif instructor. The idea being more uniformity of the training, all the instructors teaching the same thing.
I agree with the idea of improving instruction wholeheartedly, but the problem is it is hamstringing the quality instructors to by limiting them to department and not giving me, the student (and the customer), a choice to say "I want to train with this instructor"
SO when I, the customer, have a willing and available instructor that I know to be an excellent and qualified teacher, cannot recieve instruction from him because he isnt "in that department" (though he is fully certified by the FAA to instruct for that rating).
I am pretty pissed about it because he and I had planned to start the commercial rating as soon as I passed the instrument ride, as in tomorrow. But today, after the ride, he found out that he would not be allowed to do that by the school. Long answer I know, but I have been pissed about it all day.