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Here's a video that shows a rebuild. It helped me understand how engines work much better.

Just checked. I have given dual to 68 students.

Yea, it's not that I don't remember anything about how they fly its just that I can't remember specifics about their ADM, situational awareness, etc. Students that I flew consistently with (did majority of instrument or multi) I remember lots about--but I don't remember these guys well enough...

If I understand your question, the school can't exist without my flight instructor certificate. The school itself can't get its own CFI cert, only a person can. But sometimes our interests/incentives aren't aligned. In this case, they may want to push the student through with minimal training...

Nope. I can think of two people in management that have their MEI (not my location). And about 4 that don't. And of those 4, I don't think any have their CFII's either. Also, most have about 500-1250 hours total time. It's actually pretty interesting when they create new SOPs. 100% of the...

For everyone's benefit, here's the description. Its basically spot on. "An underpaid, overworked Certified Flight Instructor cheats death while attempting to teach a cast of incompetent student pilots to fly at a skeezy South Florida flight school; all in the quest to build flight time so he...

Somewhat unrelated but aren't these units serialized? I'm always amazed when I hear of people stealing boxes like this.

Management doesn't have their MEIs. They're all CFI only. Not saying there is anything wrong with it, but it is interesting when they try to teach us multi drivers something when they've never even flown it.

Yea, of course I would do this, but I no longer work for the company and I live on the other side of the country now.

Agreed. It's just a bummer when you get messages from the school saying "you bailed on your students", we're "disappointed", and how "unfortunate" and "unprofessional" it is. Obviously, I care for the student's and their success. I just wanted to see what other's assessments are to make sure...

Long story short, my old company has asked me to sign off two students for their initial Commercial, Multi checkride. The students are chinese, contract students. Of the two students they want endorsements for, I flew 7.1 and 3.1 hours with them--basically at the end of their training. I have...

Thanks for all the comments, everyone! I'll give a quick update of what we did/where we went. To make a long story short, we weren't able to take the airplane for multiple days at a time like we were initially told we could. It was kind of a gray area of "yes you can take it for a week" but...

Would be nice! I'm just a bit worried about getting good rest since we will be flying quite a bit in such a short period of time. And yea, weight is definitely an issue. Right now, we'll only be able to fly for about 2 hours considering our weight and bags.

Of course. Magenta lines are the only way to navigate, right?

Not a bad idea! Know how the weather is up there this time of year? We both have pretty firm dates we need to be back by so we are trying not to get stuck somewhere due to weather.

We'll probably do the whole safety pilot thing. I'm a CFII so we could log it as dual given/received as well.

A friend and I are renting a 152 and plan on flying about 60 hours over the course of 10 days (sounds miserable, I know). Any recommendations on airports/FBOs/sights/landmarks to go to? Planning on trying to go towards the midwest, then south towards Texas, then west towards Vegas, then back...

Not super helpful, but just want to throw out that the voltage regulators are probably the most frustrating thing for me on the Seminole. I'm not exaggerating when I say that one alternator will indicate 0 probably at least twice a week on most of our Seminoles. It's not uncommon for us to...

Thanks for all the input, everyone. I've added these to a list and will hopefully dive into them tonight!

Over 800 hours instructing in the Seminole now, and the biggest thing that makes a difference in a student's success is knowing the flows! Get them ahead of time from your instructor and be able to quote them word for word quickly, efficiently, accurately. If you find yourself pausing thinking...