Jason608
Pre-takeoff checklist
I started my IFR journey August 2016. This has has not been the hardest thing I ever learned, but has been the most frustrating thing I have ever done. I started with the CFI that taught my ground school. An excellent but outdated CFI that frustrated me to no end. I had my hours complete, confident, ready to go and a few weeks before Christmas. Met with the DPE, just to find out the airplane had a failed co-pilot seat adjustment. Rescheduled six weeks later, ready to go, met with the DPE and my XC was not valid. Apparently a visual does not count as an approach. Another six weeks later, redo the XC, meet with the DPE, and find out the night before the club steam gauge C182 blew a rod. Ok, I will take the G1000, I had 7 hours in that, no problem. Missing maintenance documents, Checkride canceled. Screw this I quit. Probably would have busted due to lake of G1000, so a blessing in disguise.
Wait two moments, meet a great CFI at Sierra Aviation, out of Santa Fe, I'm based in Phoenix. Use all my American points, spent 6 weeks studying, starting over, becoming the best I can be. As of two weeks ago, I pass my IFR Checkride with flying colors, the best I can be. Get home, following weekend, take my first Solo IFR XC, goes great. Setup for this weekend to take the family to San Diego comic con, and the club plan has a bent rod. Fine, still have points, we will go commercial on on Friday.
Twitter blows up on Monday that an evolution went down at falcon. Not very uncommon since we have so much training traffic in the SW. However the story seems familiar. When I did the aviation seminars IFR ground school there was a student that quit the second day. Actually, I took the written, passed with a sucky 77% so I decided to take the class again. There were four of us in the seminar. Alan sat across from me, about the same age. He was running a technical training company out of Scottsdale AZ. Very successful and I was jealous. I spoke to him during the break, and he had a Cub and Cessna 400. However he wanted something faster, like an evolution or turbine. He hated the IFR class, left the second day saying he would self study and memorize the material. I remember wishing I was that confident because this IFR crap is hard.
Alan died last night just off of Falcon Field in that Evolution. Screw this, this crap is much harder than I thought.
Wait two moments, meet a great CFI at Sierra Aviation, out of Santa Fe, I'm based in Phoenix. Use all my American points, spent 6 weeks studying, starting over, becoming the best I can be. As of two weeks ago, I pass my IFR Checkride with flying colors, the best I can be. Get home, following weekend, take my first Solo IFR XC, goes great. Setup for this weekend to take the family to San Diego comic con, and the club plan has a bent rod. Fine, still have points, we will go commercial on on Friday.
Twitter blows up on Monday that an evolution went down at falcon. Not very uncommon since we have so much training traffic in the SW. However the story seems familiar. When I did the aviation seminars IFR ground school there was a student that quit the second day. Actually, I took the written, passed with a sucky 77% so I decided to take the class again. There were four of us in the seminar. Alan sat across from me, about the same age. He was running a technical training company out of Scottsdale AZ. Very successful and I was jealous. I spoke to him during the break, and he had a Cub and Cessna 400. However he wanted something faster, like an evolution or turbine. He hated the IFR class, left the second day saying he would self study and memorize the material. I remember wishing I was that confident because this IFR crap is hard.
Alan died last night just off of Falcon Field in that Evolution. Screw this, this crap is much harder than I thought.
