Some of you are aware that I was planning on a dual cross country flight with my CFI on Monday. Due to a misunderstanding, we did not have enough time to fly but we were able to get the flight all planned and more importantly, I understand how to do it now. We've rescheduled for next Tuesday.
My CFI's pseudonym is "Jimmy". I gave him a fake name for this blog so he wouldn't find it on his own. I didn't want him to read any of this until the training was done. However, on Monday he informed me that he might be going full time with his regional airline job, and he might not be able to teach anymore.
His real name is Jesse, and I'm hoping to find out who I'm flying my dual cross country with very soon. While I'm disappointed that I couldn't finish with Jesse, I understand that flight instructing is almost always a transitional job on the path to an airline career.
We'll see what the future holds, but Jesse made a good point: he's already taught me the fundamentals of flying the airplane, and all that remains is cross country navigation and preparing for my checkride. In the meantime, I've scheduled the Warrior for a solo flight tomorrow to polish up my takeoffs and landings.
3 comments:
Greetings from Japan! Sorry to see that you may have to switch instructors again and have gotten caught up in the common instructor-to-airline-pilot shuffle. But it doesn't seem to have affected your training too much and you're movin right along... so good luck and hope you get to the cross countries soon - I can't wait to get to mine!
Yeah, wasn't it in Flight Training magazine where that one girl went through 23 instructors (Brooke)? I think I'll survive. And actually, I'm still on instructor #1, but I had another CFI do a lesson with me when Jesse was stuck in NYC. Hope Japan is treating you well!
Ahh I confused your situation then - just having one isn't bad at all. Japan's quite interesting but it's been a neat trip. All the food has been spectacular. Off to dinner I go...
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