Insufficient accumulation of hours

[UnAnswerd]

Well I've been at it for 5 months now, and I have an incredible 6.6 hours! If my math is accurate, that equates to an average of 1.3 hours a month. Assuming I'll need close to 60 hours before the checkride, at this rate, I can expect to get my certificate in 3.4 years!!!!!

Seriously, this can't be good. I mean, to have such large gaps between flights??? It can't be good for training. I can technically afford to fly 2 days a week, but lately the weather has just sucked!!! Things need to get better in the spring/summer as this is getting to be a joke! I'm not necessarily in a hurry, but I'd like my certificate in possibly a year or slightly more. I really hope my instructor will be willing to fly after 5 or 6 o'clock in the summer, as I have obligations to work full-time.

 

[Flechas]

If he is not willing to fly, get a new one, try to fly as often as possible (work, family, whatever) and keep studying. Go prepared for every flight and ground lesson, that way you will get the most for you time and dollar.

Good luck with your training, keep us informed, we are pulling for you!

 

[urflyingme?!]

Hmm, I recommend dawn patrol. Pulling a plane out of a hangar while it's still dark outside, and taking off into dawn is awesome!

 

[Goose Egg]

Not sure what to say except to keep after it. This too shall pass. Part of learning to fly is showing what you are made of. Hang in there bro.

Edit: I highly reccomend the dawn patrol.

-Goose

 

[COOPERVANE]

Don't give up!!!!

If the delays are weather related, wait it out and then concentrate on your flying as often as possible.

If your instructor, get a new one or change schools

If financing. Don't fly and save up your money. Or borrow the money. Then fly 6-7 days a week if you can. It will be cheaper in the long run. Good luck!!

 

[Flyeys]

Well I've been at it for 5 months now, and I have an incredible 6.6 hours! If my math is accurate, that equates to an average of 1.3 hours a month. Assuming I'll need close to 60 hours before the checkride, at this rate, I can expect to get my certificate in 3.4 years!!!!!

Seriously, this can't be good. I mean, to have such large gaps between flights??? It can't be good for training. I can technically afford to fly 2 days a week, but lately the weather has just sucked!!! Things need to get better in the spring/summer as this is getting to be a joke! I'm not necessarily in a hurry, but I'd like my certificate in possibly a year or slightly more. I really hope my instructor will be willing to fly after 5 or 6 o'clock in the summer, as I have obligations to work full-time.

I too recommend dawn patrol. One because watching the sun rise from the air is an awe inspiring sight and 2, you can accomplish more due to the small volume of traffic and better weather. Anybody who says learning to fly is easy must be doing something wrong because it is very difficult. On the plus side there is almost nothing as rewarding than the things you will accomplish in aviation. Whatever you do don't give up, it can only get better from here...

 

[UnAnswerd]

Thank you all for the advice. I definitely wont give up, as I will get my certificate one way or the other...

 

[FN FAL]

Thank you all for the advice. I definitely wont give up, as I will get my certificate one way or the other...

Can you use "insuficient" and "accumulation" in the same sentence?

Hang in their UA...you get it. IF you have the stamina, not only will you get the ratings, but you might just out endure your instructor.

My 141 instructor was the prodigal son of a major airline pilot. He was a paradigm in his own mind. After I got all my ratings, my instructor got THE CALL! A Beech 1900 regional called "Florida Gulf" called him. He knew every far by page number and could do "spins in the clouds"...and at times could be a real dong head.

Anyway, he gets the call to Florida Gulf, quits the 141 flight school, then washes out at the regional. Guess they didn't need to know what page the FAR for this, that and the other thing was. So his dad retires from the major and buys an FBO at the Frederick airport in Frederick Maryland and hires his washout regional son to run it. Last I heard that fell through as well. It's not their fault...FBO's are the worst gamble in the world.

So, moral to the story? Get your lessons done, don't give your instructor any lip, pass those checkrides and if you are re-ziliant, maybe someday you will be able to drive by your old intstructor's house blowing the horn and waving the one finger salute.

Hahhahahahahah.