If you could only say 5 things as an instructor...

[Dubya]

1. I should have listened to my dad and gone to __________ (law, medical, accounting, retail management, truck driving, park ranger, business, baseball umpiring, shrimp boat captain, welding, architecture, pga tour, logging, photography, card dealing, plumbing, engineering, horticulture, firefighting, meteorology, palm reading, diesel mechanics, advanced knitting, radio broadcasting, HAZMAT handling, mandarin chinese language, cardboard manufacturing, Wal-Mart greeters, marine biology, seamstress) school.

2. No.

3 No!

4. NO!

5. Noooooooooooooo!

W

 

[Lostdog65]

1. Right rudder.
2. Didn't I say right rudder?
3. When were you going to add right rudder?
4. This *foot taps right rudder* is the right rudder.
5. Maybe flying isn't for you.

(This is why I don't instruct anymore.)

 

[Lostdog65]

For ICC's...

1. Did you bring a hood?
2. Why did you do that?
3. Where'd the glideslope go?
4. Which side is the holding side?
5. I don't care if the Pope hisself is standing on the runway with your dying grandmother in his arms...You will not do a single-engine go-around...you will land the d@mn plane!

Eric

 

[Catbert]

1. Look outside.
2. Listen to the plane.
3. Consider descending before we get to the aiport.
4. What's the trend of this plane... where is it going?
5. Have you heard a word I've said?

 

[UGAflyer]

1: Right rudder
2: watch your airspeed
3: not so much
4: my plane
5: let's try that again

 

[DrewBlows]

1. Altitude.
2. Altitude.
3. Altitude!
4. Altitude!!
5. Altitude!!!

 

[paulsalem]

1. Go ahead and level off
2. We're still Climbing
3. Let's go ahead and start down now.
4. We're still Climbing
5. Yea approach, we're on our way back down to 3,500 now. Sorry.

 

[rchcfi]

1. OK, you flared a little high...
2. Add power.
3. POWER!!!
4. POWER!!!
5. S**T!!!!!!!

 

[paulsalem]

1. OK, you flared a little high...
2. Add power.
3. POWER!!!
4. POWER!!!
5. S**T!!!!!!!

LOL, yea sometimes I wish for dual throttles as well as dual controls.

 

[navigator72]

I'll bet you a beer
I'll show you how it's done
Watch this
Oh Sh*t
Arrrrrgggghhhhhh

 

[Blue583]

1. Go ahead and level off
2. We're still Climbing
3. Let's go ahead and start down now.
4. We're still Climbing
5. Yea approach, we're on our way back down to 3,500 now. Sorry.

This made me laugh. I love it when the student is announcing his altitude and still announces the altitude he is "supposed" to be at even though he/she is 500 feet off.

 

[Gutenberg]

Ahh- that's refreshing- no backhanded criticism or lowbrow condescending in any of these posts. Just pilots cracking a few jokes.

How about-

5. those fuel gauges are accurate, you just gotta pound on em a little.

 

[spudskier]

-More Right Rudder
-Reduce Pitch
-Eyes Outside
-My Airplane
-Did you study at all?

 

[Lostdog65]

How about-

5. those fuel gauges are accurate, you just gotta pound on em a little.

Gutenberg...

You flying Cessna singles?! LOL! I still do that every so often in the 340/421/402's I'm flying just for kicks and grins and chuckles. Old habits and all!

Eric

 

[siucavflight]

1. pull up
2. faster
3. no not that on
4. right rudder
5. FLARE