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Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:19 am
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cockney steve wrote:@ MichaelP saidnot a tea bag in a mug of hot water! Scolded pot, heated cups,
Ah! so that's how you quell arguments in the brew-room.
(just stirring the pot.)
There’s more to this than the obvious.
Instructors teach through their own actions too.
Students catch on to the fact that you do everything precisely and correctly.
The new CFI makes the tea at the school now. Standards have dropped in this. If I visit I bring milk, if I remember. Teapots have been busted, I replaced them. I have supplied a new teapot even though I don’t work there.
Likewise, pitot covers go missing, I replaced them.
The aeroplanes were tied down properly with snug ropes, to prevent snatching in the wind. Control locks in place.
Ongoing never ending teaching of the same desirable things.
Considerable money can be saved if the CFI does the job well and brings all the instructors into line with doing things properly.
If there is one person who you should pay well it is a good Chief Flying Instructor.
The current CFI asked me “does it really make a difference the way you make tea?”
I made a fresh pot, and yes it does.
If you have the ability to make a good pot of tea perhaps you have the ability to make a good student into a good pilot.
In the beginning I worked at Pro.
The boss thought I was a bit weird, should they employ me at all?
But I brought in the students; my reputation did this.
You do what you do, I worked in the aircraft industry, BAC/BAe, did everything I could to have a proper job and a proper income, but I failed, and became a flying instructor, something I have done the whole of my sensible life.
The aviation we do is a way of life. It’s poverty of income, but we do it anyway.
A difference between England and Canada is that though it’s more expensive in Britain, we do it anyway.
I took home £21.50 a week and paid £11.64 per hour dual to learn at Exeter Flying Club... It had to be done.
In Canada nearly all the students are on mum and dads’ money. They can only justify learning to fly as part of their airline career aspirations.
You don’t see kids bicycling to the airfield to look at aeroplanes as I did. The roads are more dangerous these days, and there are other attractions.
Flights are being cancelled in Canada. Not enough pilots. If it is to be believed above, Ryanair are paying their pilots very well compared to Canadian operators.
The paucity of income following the expense of training has made piloting aircraft an unattractive proposition.
Asked by a student whether to be a CPL or a Dr, I told him “Doctors own aeroplanes”. He became a doctor, and flew an Extra 300.
MichaelP
Wandering the World
Wandering the World
. I caused some amusement when on my first visit I asked where the bike rack was; but many buildings in Ottawa have them, especially downtown, and the roads are bike-friendly (plenty of well-surfaced bike paths and lanes). I also commuted by bike (but 'bus - also excellent there - in midwinter).
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