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I’m still here. Things have been hectic recently. Family sick and trying to balance work and school. Anyway, I don’t know that the instruction is getting any better, but I’m starting to get more confident just getting more time in the air. I’ve primarily been with one instructor the last couple...

So the weather was crap, I got about halfway to the school and my instructor called to cancel. I asked if I could get some simulator time since it’s an 85 mile drive one way. Got in the sim and instructor played on his phone most of the time. I got SOME good training out of it, but I’m really...

I go back up tomorrow morning. I’m scheduled with the first (good) instructor. We’ll see how it goes. I’m going to talk to him about my experience last week.

Yes, I’m under the post 9/11 GI Bill that they passed back in 06.

Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa.

That threw me off to when I was first looking into this. I can assure you however that they are in fact paying for it. My wife actually found out that they’d cover the whole thing. I’ll post the page from my school’s admissions site that talks about it here in a moment. If it was something I...

I can assure you, it is not “hogwash”. They will cover the primary training if it is part of a larger course that leads to the commercial license. It has to be at a part 141 school though. You should check the VA website, they actually provide a list of all the accepted schools. You’ll just...

No. It’s Carver Aviation in Davenport and Aero America in Council Bluffs.

I’m in Des Moines, IA. Only 3 part 141 schools in the state that accept G.I. Bill. I’m already traveling 85 miles one way for this school. The other 2 are 135 and 178 miles away respectively. If things don’t improve, I’m willing to change schools, but it’s a last option just due to the extra...

Good luck to you and I really hope it gets better for you. I would agree that there was a mix up, but for the fact that in our post flight it was mentioned several times that it was only my second flight. The instructor also filled out my logbook for me, so he saw what was logged. No mention...

I was nervous, but I was not argumentative or defensive. I’m a commercial driving instructor by trade so I know how stressful it can be on both sides. I didn’t mean to sound like I was complaining about multiple instructors, just that at this stage, it threw me off. I’m not considering quitting...

I got one initially, but they took it the day of my first flight. It sits on a shelf in the briefing room and the instructors mark stuff off after a lesson.

Seemed odd to me. I was at a whopping total of .7 hours before today and it seemed like he was throwing a lot at me all at once

The guy I flew with today makes the schedule. He’s the assistant chief instructor.

The bad part is this guy is the chief instructor. Same type of plane (Cherokee), but ones a ‘65 with power everything and the other is an ‘81 that I’m surprised I didn’t have to hand prop.

No choice on instructor. We get whoever is working that day. I’m not sure what they syllabus said, he didn’t let me read it. I do know he seemed irritated because he’d wanted to work on slow flight and put what he called foggles on me but we didn’t get to it because of my issues.

I started my training August 27. I’m going through a community college and the program will take me from no experience to commercial and CFII. Last week I took my first flight. I thought it went pretty well. It was short, but informative and uneventful in a good way. Today I took my second...