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Originally Posted by rb3000  Thanks for the replys again.... i am 21 years old and currently i have about 10 hours logged, but i am not happy with my training because at my local FBO here i have to study ALL the material on my own and basically only for flying i go to the FBO which is waste of money because ground school is the important part of the training.. i am looking for a school that has structure ground school with the flying lesson and is everyday kind of like a regular school.... as far as my goal i want to finish all my ratings and i want to get a flying job i don't really care about how much i make ( at least at this point) even if i make $1000 month i am happy... it is very hard to find a good flight school... i would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
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Y'know, I started to reply to this, then stopped, because I couldn't figure out a way to explain what it was that bothered me about your remarks above. It took a bit for it to click...I'm further along in my training than you are, but not by a hell of a lot in the grand scheme of things, so take this with a grain of salt, please...
Ground school is an important part of training, but I disagree that it's
the most important part of the training. It's one piece of the whole puzzle.
The student-CFI relationship is a two-way street. Your remarks above seem to indicate that you want the ground stuff fed to you in a way that you can regurgitate later...I'm not sure if that's the case, but it reads that way to me.
Your CFI will respond to your enthusiasm and diligence - heck, most relationships are like this - and if you put in the extra effort you'll get that extra effort back from a good CFI. But if you sit there with your arms folded and create an impression of "you've not fed me this stuff so I don't have to know it" it creates a negative atmosphere. That makes it harder for you and your CFI.
Please understand - I don't mean to belittle or berate you here - I can only go on how this reads - and I'm not sure you mean it this way.
But flying and learning to fly is an active process with a great deal of exploration and investigation that goes way beyond what's in the Gleim book practice exams for the written, y'know? It's a journey that your CFI wisely guides you on.
Good luck in your studies, and I hope you find what you need. I second the ground school at a college idea, by the way. My CFI teaches those on a regular basis and they're supposed to be pretty good.