As of today, I'm a certified flight instructor!
WOW.
What a long time this has been coming. So much work and preparation has been put into this one day. I don't even feel completely comfortable with everything yet, and I'm still learning a lot every day.
For the first time in my life, I started something, and I finished it. I still have more work to do before I'm employed, but I'm a whole hell of a lot closer today.
I'm so incredibly ecstatic!
Is knowing what makes you happy, and knowing that no-one can take that away from you.
Posting here has really slowed down, I’m sure I’m writing to myself anymore these days. I guess the average number of readers for all the millions of blogs on the internet is like 2 per blog. So I’m not sure if that includes the author or not, but here’s hoping! (also- there are something like 40,000 new blogs per day)
I’m currently enrolled in single engine commercial add-on. I’ve finished flight instructor ground school with high marks. I studied very hard for those tests, and did very well. Which made me pretty happy. This course is very short, and I should have it completed by the end of the month. After that it’s right into flight instructor flying.
This includes a lot of studying, and a lot of research. I’m required to have a lesson made for almost everything that is a part of the private pilot practical test standards. Basically be able to teach anything that a new pilot would be required to learn if I was their instructor. This process is basically the consolidation, and summarization of a lot of material. This material is stretched across many different sources, and requires me to pick only the pertinent information for a time limited lesson. I’m excited for this though, as much work as it’s going to be. It will force me to learn in great detail everything there is to know about becoming a private pilot and commercial pilot. This will be an incredible boost to my base of knowledge, and respectively, my confidence as an instructor.
I’m excited to be nearly completed with this program. Through everything, all I have learned, I think I have grown as a person. I’m optimistic about my future, and look forward to the new upcoming challenges.
There is pretty much no excuse. I just haven’t put anything here for a long time.
Today I finished my multi-engine commercial check ride! This means I’m almost a real pilot. If I had a job, I could get paid to fly. BUT, I’m already working on my flight instructor rating to work for the school here in Florida.
I did really good on the oral portion of the test, and did OK on the flight. Definitely could have flown better, but the weather and clouds got to me a little bit I think. Oh well. I passed, it’s finished, and I’m moving on.
It’s kind of weird, this check ride came so quick, I now have to endorsements on the same page in my logbook! Now I start working on my single-engine commercial rating. I doubt I’ll be able to finish it before Christmas break.
I’ve already started the flight instructor ground school. I’m about half way through that right now. It’s been good so far, but still mostly just review. We do have a few presentations that we have to give to the class at the end. I’m looking forward to it, even though I don’t like talking in front of an audience.
After extensive amounts of time off for vacation, and weather, and health. I’m nearly done! I feel good about the speed of my progress. Even though I’m about 4 months behind what I could have been, all things considered, it’s still pretty awesome!
Moving on!