Worst Lesson Ever!!!

[bigD]

I think the guy has some spyware that automatically creates links to drum up hits to some website. It's the first time I've ever seen spyware do that, but it makes sense as yet another thing these douchebags do to generate clickthroughs...

 

[Metro752]

I just downloaded the Windows Beta Antispyware program. My system is clean according to that and Spybot S&D.


http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Glad it's just him ..............

 

[Flechas]

Dude, let's get rid of the avatarar...

 

[Metro752]

Dude, let's get rid of the avatarar...

It's a spoof on Star Wars, not a pro Star Wars thing. But, if you insist, I'll find something new.

 

[Flechas]

It's a spoof on Star Wars, not a pro Star Wars thing. But, if you insist, I'll find something new.

A spoof is just fine, I'm not really losing sleep over it, maybe just over reacted because of the Episode III thread and all the geeks at the movies.

 

[Metro752]

I know I know, but I fixed my Avatar now! What u think?

 

[Flechas]

Haha that's a lot better!!

 

[Fly_Chick]

Take heart! You are cut out to fly, just the fact that you recognized some challenges shows you are aware of what is going on around you!

Talk to your instructor. If he/she sees you getting overwhelmed (busy pattern, new plane, change of runways) he/she should step up and take some of the radio calls.

Your instructor should recognize when you need a "break", and that includes when you should just set the plane down and come back tomorrow. There has been a few times during my training when it would have been better to just stop flying and try again tomorrow.

Some days we are just not at our best. If you do not feel your instructor is helping in the pattern, please talk to him/her. Let your cfi know your concerns. This may have just been a bad day for everyone involved, including the controllers.

Do not give up. Each of us has had at least one day of flying which we wished never existed.

 

[Kream926]

doooood

go cry to your mother

we all have bad days but we dont post em on the internet

 

[urflyingme?!]

Just wait until you almost kill yourself on your comm checkride. THEN you will truly feel like an a$$!

 

[liv'n_on_credit]

Instructor

I'm going to chalk this experience up to "instructor fault". With you only having 12 hours total time, he/she should have jumped on the radio at the slightest problem, instead on making you look like a fool on the radio. If you were a more advanced student(closer to checkride), then I'd let you talk your way into the ground and laugh(unless it gets too bad), but not when you only have 12 hours.

We all sound like a fool from time to time on the airwaves, but during initial training it can be extremely detrimental...sometimes actually putting a stop to the entire teaching process. An event like that ruins the entire rest of the lesson.

My advice if you continue to have radio problems...have your instructor take you to a non-towered field and do most of your training there, at least until you have soloed. After you solo, having that worry off your shoulder, you'll be ready to tackle the radio when you start your cross-country training.

 

[Yellow Snow]

Its no big deal it has happened to everyone. You can turn this into a positive. You are surely going to continue on to get your instrument after you finish the private. You are going to have to learn to copy clearances quickly and precisely especially as a commercial pilot. Use this lesson to teach yourself a good shorthand for taxi and takeoff instructions and you will be well on your way to being an instrument and commercial pilot. If you develop the skill now you won't have to worry about it in instrument training.

 

[kingaira90]

lay off the p0rn ;-)

You tell me. For the past week my computer has been plagued with relentless popups and unexplained occurrences. Every message on this forum has words underlined and linked to webpages. This is beginning to become a real problem. I had no idea there was any type of word search site within my post....

Go to download.com and search for ad-aware. It will clean all of that crap off. You can throw in Spybot Search and Destroy if you want. But ad-aware always does the trick and finds far more creepy crap, and even cleans off browser hijackers. Get the aoutomatic update as soon as you load it.

Don't worry about the radio work, sounds like your instructor was being lazy or just mean. -kingaira90

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Coining a phrase from my fishing friends.....

"A bad day of flying beats any good day at work."

 

[minitour]

Coining a phrase from my fishing friends.....

If you go "fishing" and don't catch anything.....is it still "fishing"?