Fun in a WMU C-172

[5ontheglide]

Hey with the opportunity to break into this lucrative field? Are you kidding me - it's a steal at $120 an hour! Sign me up KE!

 

[wmudriver]

what exactly did the video consist of?

 

[SPilot]

what exactly did the video consist of?

Just some low altitude flying and aerobatic manouvers. Nothing that hasnt been done before.

 

[wmudriver]

Plainwell 5 Departure?

 

[WMUchickenhawk]

Both the Cirrus and 172 are $120/hr now. Double what I paid as a student 7 years ago... wish my pay would make that kind of jump to match.

Yeah, they had guaranteed that the Cirrus wouldnt cost more than the Cessna to operate, so when they realized it would work at 93$ an hour, they raised the Cessna price.

 

[WMUchickenhawk]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iJL7bHBToc8&search=wmu

Here is a clip for WMU Instructors, future, past, and present, of what not to do.

Heard Fulmer yesterday on WMU company, while over BTL at FL210, he said they have are up to 18 Cirrus now and are getting 6 more over the next 2 weeks.

With all the glass in those Cirrus, WMU grads should be able to go directly to a RJ with 250 hours of SR-22 Glass Cockpit PIC time......

Anyway, I digress, I wonder who will be the one to create a Fun in a WMU SR-22 video. Something for the Rob & Tom show to go crazy over I bet.

I smell a Read & Initial...

Unfortunately, only 2 are 22's, the others are 20's. And there are no solos allowed in the 22.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

It always amazed me how much they talked up how great the training was there yet how little they trusted the students. To say nothing of how little trust was/is shown in the instructors.

 

[Metro752]

WMU is cool, they have good parties, and good looking girls.

 

[FlyingFerris]

My favorite part how how WMU upper staff has decided to totally be the whores of Cirrus. Instead of coming up with our own sylabus and other training methods we're using the ones Cirrus stole from UND, and using the training methods Cirrus wants us to use. Now we do all "scenario based training," so I'm trying to figure out how 8's on pylons will fit into a scenario.

"You were hired to annoy someone elses neighbor. He has requested you fly an 8 like pattern accross his neighbors two house, but vary the altitude so it's all that more annoying."

On top of that we now rape students for a 15-20 hour "Cirrus transition" before they can start into actual 141 lessons. So since all 20 lessons are dual thats $163 an hour plus a $10 fuel surcharge. After the $3460 raping of the student they now can begin lessons. Glass is easier to use, just because you had a hard time "getting it" doesn't mean the generation that started with Nintendo will have just as much trouble as you guys did.

 

[WMUchickenhawk]

My favorite part how how WMU upper staff has decided to totally be the whores of Cirrus. Instead of coming up with our own sylabus and other training methods we're using the ones Cirrus stole from UND, and using the training methods Cirrus wants us to use. Now we do all "scenario based training," so I'm trying to figure out how 8's on pylons will fit into a scenario.

"You were hired to annoy someone elses neighbor. He has requested you fly an 8 like pattern accross his neighbors two house, but vary the altitude so it's all that more annoying."

On top of that we now rape students for a 15-20 hour "Cirrus transition" before they can start into actual 141 lessons. So since all 20 lessons are dual thats $163 an hour plus a $10 fuel surcharge. After the $3460 raping of the student they now can begin lessons. Glass is easier to use, just because you had a hard time "getting it" doesn't mean the generation that started with Nintendo will have just as much trouble as you guys did.

I'd heard it was only 10 hours. It makes sense to me. Its a much more advanced aircraft than the Cessna, and I doubt insurance would like it if stuents just felw them straight off.