Week 1
Monday: Rain
Tuesday: Rain
Wednesday: No rain; no visibility either
Thursday: Take instructor to lunch. Discover I don’t know enough
to take instructor to lunch.
Friday: Fly! Do first stall and second stall during same maneuver. Cover instructor with lunch.
Week 2
Monday: Learned not to scrape frost off Plexiglas with ice-scraper. Used big scratch as marker to set pitch.
Tuesday: Instructor wants me to stop calling throttle “THAT BIG KNOB THING.” Also hates when I call instruments “GADGETS”
Wednesday: Radios won’t pick up radio stations, so I turned them off. Instructor seems to think I missed something.
Thursday: Learned 10 degree bank is not a steep turn. Did stall again today. Lost 2000 feet. Instructor said that was some kind of record — my first compliment.
Friday: Did steep turn. Instructor said I was not ready for inverted flight yet.
Week 3
Monday: Instructor called in sick. New instructor told me to stop calling her “BABE”. Did steep turns. She said I had to have permission for inverted flight.
Tuesday: Instructor back. He told me to stop calling him “BABE”, too. He got mad when I pulled power back on takeoff because the engine was to loud.
Wednesday: Instructor said after the first 20 hours, most students have established a learning curve. He said there is a slight bend in mine. Aha–progress!
Thursday: Did stalls. Clean recovery. Instructor said I did good job. Also did turns around a point. Instructor warned me never to pick ex-fiancée’s house as point again.
Friday: Did circuit work. Instructor said that if downwind, base and final formed a triangle, I would be perfect. More praise!
Week 4
Monday: First landing at a controlled field. Did fine until I told the captain in the 747 ahead of us on the taxiway to move his bird. Instructor says we’ll have ground school all this week on radio procedures.
Tuesday: Asked instructor if everyone in his family had turned grey at such an early age. He smiled. We did takeoff stalls. He says I did just fine but to wait until we reached altitude next time. Three Niner Juliet will be out of the shop in three days when the new strut and tyre arrive. Instructor says his back bothers him only a little.
Wednesday: Flew through clouds. I thought those radio towers were a lot lower. I’m sure my instructor is going grey.
Thursday: Left flaps down for entire flight. Instructor asked way. I told him I wanted the extra lift as a safety margin. More ground school.
Friday: Asked instructor when I could solo. I have never seen anyone actually laugh until they cried before.
Hahaha!! i remember being a student and my students also !!
in week 4 thursday .. It shud be why .. Not way … Not tryin to be a douche .. But awesome post 🙂 am sure this diary belongs to a female pilot :p
Haha at the part where it said “THAT BIG KNOB THING” nearly peed my pants laughing.
Sharang – you ARE a douche…….and a sexist one at that.
hahahha this joke is awesome…. yeah i remember my instructor, jajaja…. sharang there r great female pilots so dont be douche…..
Sharang…I’m going with Christine on this one! Although, I can’t call you a douche (won’t go into why here) I can call you chauvanistic! In my experience….that is all female pilots I know end to be better pilots and better at making decisions than some of the egoistical, macho men I’ve met! FYI—Guys before you get mad at me, NOT ALL MEN are egotistical or macho! Some actually think!
remem my first solo where i followed the wrong traffic to final…lol
ok how did you get MY diary? ahaha LOL, my instructor still laughs at me when I tell him I wanna go solo… 🙁
I remember when I read these lines the first time. It was on a very funny and original website with copyrights on ..
Once I followed the downwind traffic at night which happened to be an airliner at 15,000ft. Quite the pissed off controller…wait that was last week..
Hey how did you get my diary?
An instructor once said to me that you can’t properly teach all students to fly. With some of them it’s more like training a horse to do tricks.
If this is a joke only. It’s really funny! However, if this actually happened then it’s freakin hilarious!!
I remember my first stall, aparently my instructor wasn’t impressed when I put my hands over my eyes when the stall warning went off.
This post is hilarious for sure and gets one to thinking about what could happen if the situation was real in all those stories. Thanks for posting. blues skies and tailwinds I started instructing in 1968 and have some stories, I wish I had written them down. I am thinking about going through a few of my logbooks to see if I can come up with some stories to publish. I have started writing a flight training manual If I don’t run out of steam first it will go from the first lesson to training missionary pilots and to flying… Read more »
I had a very cool instructor. About my 3rd spin something went amiss, and on the way down the instructor said “Actually I don’t normally cover inverted spins this early, but since we’re here.”