WestHouston
Something witty
- Joined
- May 3, 2006
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- 176
Ok. I'm not trying to start a sh*t storm or anything, but what do they tell Embry Riddle guys? Do they really tell them that they are better pilots or that they will get more respect when they tell people that they went to Riddle?
I'm a flight instructor at a lowly local airport. We fly old airplanes. With torn seats. And funky 70's color schemes. With no GPS. A kid comes in and starts his CFI training at my school that did all his training at Riddle. First off, he's scared of steam gauges. He doesn't know how to navigate with a chart without a GPS. To make matters worse, he keeps talking about how he is going to get hired at the first airline he wants because Embry Riddle is known "industry wide" to be the best there is.
He acts like he feels sorry for the instructors there because we don't have the same training and "advantages" that he has, you know, being from Riddle and all.
I think he means well, but I have a hard time taking sympathy from a guy that needs a G1000 to feel safe around class Bravo airspace. Is this guy an anomaly or do they brainwash these guys into thinking they are God's gift to aviation?
I'm a flight instructor at a lowly local airport. We fly old airplanes. With torn seats. And funky 70's color schemes. With no GPS. A kid comes in and starts his CFI training at my school that did all his training at Riddle. First off, he's scared of steam gauges. He doesn't know how to navigate with a chart without a GPS. To make matters worse, he keeps talking about how he is going to get hired at the first airline he wants because Embry Riddle is known "industry wide" to be the best there is.
He acts like he feels sorry for the instructors there because we don't have the same training and "advantages" that he has, you know, being from Riddle and all.
I think he means well, but I have a hard time taking sympathy from a guy that needs a G1000 to feel safe around class Bravo airspace. Is this guy an anomaly or do they brainwash these guys into thinking they are God's gift to aviation?