Comments on: How to Become a Helicopter Pilot, Part II: The Big Tests http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/ Web site and blog for Maria Langer, freelance writer, commercial helicopter pilot, and serious amateur photographer. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:33:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2774 Maria Langer Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:58:57 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2774 Chris: I don't think I could have said it better myself. You hit the nail on the head exactly. It's the dream chasers who are sold a bill of goods by the flight schools who I pity most. Chris: I don’t think I could have said it better myself. You hit the nail on the head exactly.

It’s the dream chasers who are sold a bill of goods by the flight schools who I pity most.

]]> By: Chris http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2773 Chris Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:53:14 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2773 >>What's the flight school's motivation? This is one pearl that every bright-eyed student pilot needs to know from the beginning. Everybody at that school has a motive: the owner wants to see helicopters flying, and most CFIs want to get out and get a "real" job. Delivering an education is mostly an incidental. As a student, your motive needs to be getting an education--not chasing your dream, which is what the owner is happy to sell you, and not just going flying, which most CFIs are happy to do whether it benefits you or not. Back to the original question that started this thread, if you're not studying, you're just chasing a dream. Everybody around you will let you keep on doing that because it's in their best interests. >>What’s the flight school’s motivation?

This is one pearl that every bright-eyed student pilot needs to know from the beginning. Everybody at that school has a motive: the owner wants to see helicopters flying, and most CFIs want to get out and get a “real” job. Delivering an education is mostly an incidental. As a student, your motive needs to be getting an education–not chasing your dream, which is what the owner is happy to sell you, and not just going flying, which most CFIs are happy to do whether it benefits you or not.

Back to the original question that started this thread, if you’re not studying, you’re just chasing a dream. Everybody around you will let you keep on doing that because it’s in their best interests.

]]> By: Bluebird Bob http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2772 Bluebird Bob Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:25:17 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2772 I agree. When I flew the Huey's, I would have novice pilots who had the "I'll learn it tomorrow" attitude. I didn't have time for them, so would tell operations the problem, and they took him off my list and sometimes recycled them to another class, sometime just dropped them out of the program. Works for me... I agree. When I flew the Huey’s, I would have novice pilots who had the “I’ll learn it tomorrow” attitude. I didn’t have time for them, so would tell operations the problem, and they took him off my list and sometimes recycled them to another class, sometime just dropped them out of the program.

Works for me…

]]> By: The FAA is onto WikiRFM | wikiRFM Project http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2771 The FAA is onto WikiRFM | wikiRFM Project Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:11:55 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/09/29/how-to-become-a-helicopter-pilot-part-ii-the-big-tests/#comment-2771 [...] having to use your stick skills to save your ass--or a lawyer to save your commercial ticket. Here's a good post on that from Maria [...] [...] having to use your stick skills to save your ass–or a lawyer to save your commercial ticket. Here’s a good post on that from Maria [...]

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