CFI show on Wings TV

[LearLove]

I get the Discovery wings channel and from time to time I see this show called "learning to fly" where they take a student thru the PPL process.

First let me say I don't think I'm some kind of aviation god and its been several years since I've done full time instructing, but that CFI they have "sucks cock and balls".

Basically this guy drives me up the wall with the way he never shuts up and let the student fly. He's way way too critical while the student is flying and doesn't let the student fly thru or correct a mistake on her own, he's always taking the controls. His tone during a lession especially during the flying is twards the attitude that he has never made that mistake and you need to do it more like me which is like the book bla bla bla. Doesn't this guy realize that there is more than one way to skin a cat, I mean fly a plane. There many diff ways to fly safely not just this way. I think he does more damage to aviation than anything else. He gets his student way too upset almost every lesson.

 

[saabcaptain]

well i too have watched the show and while he is clearly a small airport instructor who perhaps is a little old school i can't say i agree.

1. his student is very nervous and lacks self confidence. he isn't upsetting her, she is upset to start with.

2. the clips they choose to show on tv are of course the ones where he is talking through the demos of manuevers. they don't show the "boring" repetition of the manuevers over and over by the student. that creates the impression he never stops talking which i doubt is the case.

3. he seems a fairly calm guy and i don't see him taking the controls excessively unless demoing a manuever which occurs quite frequently in the show because again those are clips they choose to show.

 

[Chief_FE]

I really like the bit where the genius takes the mixture to CUTOFF in the roundout for her engine out training and is restarting the engine while they are rolling down the runway.

 

[Wiggums]

If there wasn't any drama it wouldn't be on TV...even the Wings channel has standards.

 

[RightPedal]

It could be worse. They could have the King's

Maybe avbug teaching Bruce

 

[Flying Illini]

The instructor doesn't drive me crazy but the student does. She is just naturally not self-confident. When he was getting ready to solo her she freaked out and said "we've never done that before (talking about x-wind landings or something like that)" when they really had. Hmmm, reminds me of some of my old students. Anyway, she can fly the plane she just needs to be a little less emotional!

 

[starvingcfi]

ha. i always hated students like that. the ones that screamed every time we banked more than 10 degrees. always pissed me off so bad.

 

[labbats]

She is a little too scared for her own good. But that instructor is pretty bad. I thought that myself while I watched it too. His radio calls are just one thing that got under my skin.

"Cessna 1234, taxi into position and hold."
"Roger"


Not Roger, Cessna 1234. Just Roger.

 

[mizzouguy]

simulated emergencies

I've only seen this stupid show once but was absolutely apalled when he cut the mixture of to "simulate" and engine failure. Not only does the FAA have strict guidelines about this practice, it turns a simulated emergency into an actual one, especially seeing how the student reacts at the littlest thing.

 

[flywithastick]

When he was getting ready to solo her she freaked out and said "we've never done that before (talking about x-wind landings or something like that)" when they really had. Hmmm, reminds me of some of my old students.

Don't you just love it when students bust something like an emergency landing on a checkride. You're getting the debrief from the DPE and they say the student said "they'd never done emergency landings before". *These* are times I've had thoughts of strangling a student... (yes, I'm joking about the strangling thing, Mr/Ms DA).

 

[newmei]

Can't see the real big deal of pulling the mixture control on roundout....Can't see how its of any use either but tell me how its dangerous?
Now in another situation? Maybe.

He seems pretty decent but she annoys me notice how everything is "no" "god" "oh" "awww" "ahh" every five seconds. Hell my gf has flown the plane herself with me for about 50 hours (just at the stick) and I've never heard that once.
Geez

 

[flywithastick]

... but she annoys me notice how everything is "no" "god" "oh" "awww" "ahh" every five seconds.

So, it *annoys* you when women make these sounds?!

 

[Flying Illini]

So, it *annoys* you when women make these sounds?!

ROTFLMAO!!

And it does piss you off when the student will say that "they've never done that before." That's when it gives me great pleasure to find it in their logbook and point it out. The good students never seem to have this problem though...hmmm.

 

[horsefeather]

"god" "oh" "awww" "ahh"

reminds me of a flying trip back in the Spring. Holy Cow!

 

[Flying Illini]

reminds me of a flying trip back in the Spring. Holy Cow!

You did what to that cow???!!?!

 

[wmudriver]

crusty old instuctor vs. martha king

My take on it is that I'd rather have that old dude on that show than Martha King...

"Last time I saw a mouth that ugly, it had a hook in it"