poadeleted3
Pattern Altitude
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I've noticed young instructors tend to get ragged on a bit in the aviation world sometimes.
I wanted to throw out some kudos to a most pleasant young man I flew with this weekend, Jessie out of Hortman Aviation at PNE. I flew with him to check in their Tigers again.
He knew what he was doing with the plane, more importantly he knew how to teach. Some things I did he preferred to do otherwise, but didn't have a cow and presented what he liked to do, for example I've always checked fuel last, he says he prefers first in case he has to call for gas, a point worth considering. There were other things. In the air, he'd offer suggestions, not demands that I do things only his way. His suggestions were good ones, even if I still like doing things otherwise. He went out of his way to find things to teach me. He didn't have to in the context of a checkout, but he spent a fair amount of time showing me some goodies on the Garmin 430s... nice things to know, and handy, but he could have contented himself with making sure I knew how to tune the radios and use the direct to functions like some other instructors have. He struck me as a very good and patient instructor, one I'd like to learn more from.
After we landed, and I had to switch planes to a somewhat more.... well used plane without all the fancy new goodies, he walked out to the plane with me and made sure I knew how to use the radios in it.
Best of all, instead of sitting around diddling after our flight was over, he stood there talking about airplanes with someone else, checking them (the airplanes, not the someone else) out while they taxied around. Seemed to me like he hasn't let instructing get him down, indeed he's quite good at it. Did my heart good to deal with a young man like that, and I'll be asking for him by name when I need an instructor from Hortman again.
I wanted to throw out some kudos to a most pleasant young man I flew with this weekend, Jessie out of Hortman Aviation at PNE. I flew with him to check in their Tigers again.
He knew what he was doing with the plane, more importantly he knew how to teach. Some things I did he preferred to do otherwise, but didn't have a cow and presented what he liked to do, for example I've always checked fuel last, he says he prefers first in case he has to call for gas, a point worth considering. There were other things. In the air, he'd offer suggestions, not demands that I do things only his way. His suggestions were good ones, even if I still like doing things otherwise. He went out of his way to find things to teach me. He didn't have to in the context of a checkout, but he spent a fair amount of time showing me some goodies on the Garmin 430s... nice things to know, and handy, but he could have contented himself with making sure I knew how to tune the radios and use the direct to functions like some other instructors have. He struck me as a very good and patient instructor, one I'd like to learn more from.
After we landed, and I had to switch planes to a somewhat more.... well used plane without all the fancy new goodies, he walked out to the plane with me and made sure I knew how to use the radios in it.
Best of all, instead of sitting around diddling after our flight was over, he stood there talking about airplanes with someone else, checking them (the airplanes, not the someone else) out while they taxied around. Seemed to me like he hasn't let instructing get him down, indeed he's quite good at it. Did my heart good to deal with a young man like that, and I'll be asking for him by name when I need an instructor from Hortman again.
