Dont say it
Posted March 6th, 2009 at 04:09 by Number1atNumber2
Ok to anyone that's planning on getting into aviation and is about to start training: Don't say you've got your ppl or instrument training on flight sim!
When I was a CFI and I had guys come up to me and utter phrases like that just made me groan. A video game IS NOT FLYING! The tools that said junk like that were often my biggest headache because I had to get them to unlearn a lot of things they didn't really understand in the first place.
Primacy is a bitch enough as it is, when your
knowledge is flawed and re-enforced repeatedly over time, that will make life hell on both you and your instructor. And your wallet will hate you.
I remember a guy telling me "I beat flight sim so this shouldn't be hard."
You may as well get "I'm a moron" tattooed on your forehead.
Not sure why I feel the need to write this since I was a CFI 4 years ago and don't plan to go back to it. Maybe it's because I don't think anyone should pursue aviation as their primary job considering the state of the industry. Dispelling the romantic illusions of this job would probably save a lot of people a crap ton of debt, and bitterness in a lot of cases.
Do I regret getting into flying? For the most part, no. But I sure wish I had a reality check and an actual understanding of what I'd go through.
I suppose it's one thing to be told, but it's altogether different to experience a life lesson.
I think I need a beer.
When I was a CFI and I had guys come up to me and utter phrases like that just made me groan. A video game IS NOT FLYING! The tools that said junk like that were often my biggest headache because I had to get them to unlearn a lot of things they didn't really understand in the first place.
Primacy is a bitch enough as it is, when your
knowledge is flawed and re-enforced repeatedly over time, that will make life hell on both you and your instructor. And your wallet will hate you.
I remember a guy telling me "I beat flight sim so this shouldn't be hard."
You may as well get "I'm a moron" tattooed on your forehead.Not sure why I feel the need to write this since I was a CFI 4 years ago and don't plan to go back to it. Maybe it's because I don't think anyone should pursue aviation as their primary job considering the state of the industry. Dispelling the romantic illusions of this job would probably save a lot of people a crap ton of debt, and bitterness in a lot of cases.
Do I regret getting into flying? For the most part, no. But I sure wish I had a reality check and an actual understanding of what I'd go through.
I suppose it's one thing to be told, but it's altogether different to experience a life lesson.
I think I need a beer.
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