EdFred
Taxi to Parking
...me not getting my commercial.
Well, things may soon change. And not stopping at commercial. I'll get to deal with the DHS too! YAY!
All I have left to do is 10 hours of complex and the two 2hr 100+nm XCs day and night with an instructor for the commercial. What does getting the commercial have to do with the DHS? Nothing, but having the ability to legitimately argue with Ron L and Ed G over interpretations of the regs and how things should be done does. That's right another know it all CFI on the way - which my old CFII has been pushing me to get for the past year or so. What brought all this on? My father. He goes about everything backwards. First he forms a non profit corp and buys an airport. Then he starts looking for a plane to buy. (Well, the company is going to buy the plane for tax purposes and pay for me to get my commercial so I can do some things for the company that I couldn't do as a private) After he's got the airport and plane he has a small problem. He's not certified to fly it. That's where the CFI part and I come in. Where he and I are based, the instructor is only available 1 day a week - and that day doesn't work well with my dad's schedule. So, he's going to pick up the cost of my CFI rating in exchange for free instruction. Well, monetarily it's free, but little does he know is I've been staying up every night for the past month with the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket on a continuous loop in order to learn how to properly instruct. Ok, not really, but it's not going to be a walk in the park for him. And he wants to get started like, oh, now. So I gotta get this done.
So I feel I have two options:
I know there are some "fast track" schools out there, but I know some are good, some are bad, and some are ugly. Which ones do any of you recommend?
Or
Is anyone out there insane enough to take me on as a Comm/CFI candidate and help me get this thing done in a hurry?
Well, things may soon change. And not stopping at commercial. I'll get to deal with the DHS too! YAY!
All I have left to do is 10 hours of complex and the two 2hr 100+nm XCs day and night with an instructor for the commercial. What does getting the commercial have to do with the DHS? Nothing, but having the ability to legitimately argue with Ron L and Ed G over interpretations of the regs and how things should be done does. That's right another know it all CFI on the way - which my old CFII has been pushing me to get for the past year or so. What brought all this on? My father. He goes about everything backwards. First he forms a non profit corp and buys an airport. Then he starts looking for a plane to buy. (Well, the company is going to buy the plane for tax purposes and pay for me to get my commercial so I can do some things for the company that I couldn't do as a private) After he's got the airport and plane he has a small problem. He's not certified to fly it. That's where the CFI part and I come in. Where he and I are based, the instructor is only available 1 day a week - and that day doesn't work well with my dad's schedule. So, he's going to pick up the cost of my CFI rating in exchange for free instruction. Well, monetarily it's free, but little does he know is I've been staying up every night for the past month with the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket on a continuous loop in order to learn how to properly instruct. Ok, not really, but it's not going to be a walk in the park for him. And he wants to get started like, oh, now. So I gotta get this done.
So I feel I have two options:
I know there are some "fast track" schools out there, but I know some are good, some are bad, and some are ugly. Which ones do any of you recommend?
Or
Is anyone out there insane enough to take me on as a Comm/CFI candidate and help me get this thing done in a hurry?
