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What does an instructor do?
TWENTY YEARS and three lifetimes ago I was in a puzzle shop in Camden Lock Market, Camden Town, London where I bought a curious item.
Category: Choosing a flight school
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Fifty reasons to leave your flight school – or, I wish I’d come to you sooner
WITHOUT a doubt there are some fabulous fight instructors and schools in Canada. Unfortunately there are some pretty shabby ones, too.
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Who do you bring with you when you fly?
For anyone reading this who already has a pilot licence, who do you take along when you fly? I don’t mean who are your passengers, people who are physically in the aircraft with you. I mean … in your head.
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What does it mean to “learn to fly”?
When people ask me, socially, what I do, I tell them I teach people to fly. Most of the time I get two replies, one after the other. First, “wow, that’s so cool. (People are very kind, aren’t they?) And then, very often, “I’ve always wanted to learn to fly … how much does it cost?
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The pauses between the notes
Among flight instructors it is held to be a universal truth that to leave long gaps between flying lessons is a certain way for a student to stall or even regress in their learning.