BluDevAv8r
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dueguard1 said:Geez,
I am completely sick of hearing people say they learn so much from instructing, that's a bunch of nonsense
Flying demands physical skill, and I can't remember the last time I had a chance to fly an airplane down to minimums............I'm currnetly stuck w/ a bunch of students working on their PPL, and I feel like I'm nowhere near as sharp as when I finished my CFII.........It's not the shiny jet syndrome why most guys want to get to thenext level it's the challenge.
Is this flamebait? If not, that is a pretty sad attitude towards the position of being a professional flight instructor. Flying demands a physical skill to some degree but largely what we do at the airlines involves more system management and crew resource management - NOT physical skill.
If your instrument skills aren't sharp, ask your boss to let you go shoot approaches for an hour on his dime. But given what you've said in your post (this may or may not be the case), you are clearly doing your clients a disservice. Perhaps you should go build time another way...like traffic watch or pipeline patrol.
I absolutely learned a lot from flight instructing...both from teaching as well as interacting with all sorts of people from all walks of life in a confined space. Guess what? Both of those situations pop up in the airline world - teaching...and dealing with random people in a cockpit.
-Neal