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Forum >> Flight Training >> Look For The Gray HairRe: Look For The Gray HairI can appreciate where you are coming from. Me being a CFI myself, I still get alot of great instruction from my father. He's got the gray hair and hours, and some Air Force experience. At the same time though, aside from him being blood, I found it very frustrating at times being his student. We think very different when it comes to aviation. He gives it to ya dry and verbatim. I had to pull teeth at times for him to fully answer questions in a way I could understand. Not just with dad, but I see this pattern with older, most experienced pilots. But god bless him, I couldn't have done it without him.
Re: Re: Look For The Gray HairI think the problem is two-fold. First would be the personality of the instructor. Outside of a little instructing in the AF, I never wanted any part of teaching anyone to fly. I simply don't have the skill set to teach. Some folks are like me, but go ahead and get into teaching anyway. Not a great decision, in my opinion. Second, when you've got a lot of hours in your logbooks, it can quickly become tedious explaining minute details to the inexperienced. That's not fair, but is often the feeling I have. Perhaps your dad is a little like me. The man is probably a tremendous pilot, he just has difficulty getting explaining things down at levels we passed years and years ago. There are lots of extremely good AF pilots who DO have the ability to teach, however, and those are the ones I was referring to in my previous note. Their experience in truly invaluable.
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flysiempre Nov 20, 2008 00:33:05
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