Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, it was PTOMATOFLAMES. The P is silent, so it didn’t get the attention it deserved, and went extinct.
I know you meant this as an insult, but, perhaps ironically, a few $400 "hamburger runs" may be exactly what the kid needs to recapture his excitement.Young Master Braxton/Brayden/Bryson doesn't have parents, he has friends with money who are precisely one generation older than he is. You get paid to fly and babysit. You get hours and cash. Assess no-show fees so you're never hosed. Teach the stuff and try to find a way to capture his tiny ember of attention span long enough to keep it interesting and educational. Failing any of that, at some point you just gotta say F it, we're flying out for a $400 hamburger courtesy of friend mom and friend dad. Over and over and over.
Enjoy it.
One of the instructors I work with had a similar student. Had the chat with the parents. Kid has stopped flying. On the other hand I his dad soloed last Monday.
I forget that some people have no idea how their communication comes across to others. I've bolded the insulting bits. If that wasn't your intention, I apologize for assuming.
I'll work on tuning up the remaining one to be consistent.
I didn't say I was offended. I said your remarks were insulting to the student. But do you really think that it's only "nowadays" that people would be offended by your making fun of their name, behavior, and parents? On the contrary, it's only nowadays that people do such things safely from behind the comfort of a screen and keyboard.I guess I forget everyone is offended by everything nowadays. Sorry all but one of my sentences gave offence.
I find it interesting how many people default to this assumption with absolutely no actual knowledge of the person making the statement.
Don't get me started on ARROW.
Acronyms, on the other hand…
I DESPISE mnemonics . . . be they acronyms or not. Natural acronyms, or portmanteaus, are fine. But, I really don't care for the contrived ones.
We learned all the stuff without the use of an acronym
I didn't say anything about the person making the statement, only his relative safety. Back in the "good old days," you'd have to make fun of someone's name and family to his face. People still did it. But in my circles, that stood a good chance of leading to the type of altercation not possible from behind a keyboard.
One problem with the flaming fruit mnemonic is that it sets a precedent that there should then be a mnemonic for IFR instrumentation, dual ADC instrumentation, RVSM instrumentation…the list is almost endless, but the only one that seems to exist is the VFR one.
Except that by using the specific mnemonic example that he did,it appears the OP is expecting a student to memorize something that shouldn’t be memorized.
Good Boys Do Fine Always and All Cows Eat Grass for the bass clef.
On the 2-33 it is the ASI . . . seriously . . . that is the only piece of required equipment.
A magnetometer with appropriate processing and displays.
Guitar or brass player? I suffer from that a bit as I went from guitar to piano.
A magnetometer with appropriate processing and displays.
Nauga,
double-boxed
I did guitar->accordion->trumpet->organ->piano. You can skate on the bass on the accordion as well.
As the one who brought it up, I meant to suggest the CFI may be focusing on the wrong things, at least for this student. He's a kid. He wants to see progress and neat things in his training, not just drilling the same unnecessary mnemonic every week. I don't see anything about tomato flames in 61.87, which would be my focus until after first solo, especially for someone not great with the book stuff.
