Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Of course it will help !!! It's what you will do every day on duty at an airline - and you won't necessarily fly; you might be on airport standby. (Granted, airliners can fly in IMC, which training aircraft cannot).
Getting up early and going in fully prepared to fly is exactly what you will do when you get an airline job, so better get used to it now.
She will be seen and noticed by others - students, instructors, admin etc, who will start to remember her.
Smartly dressed and turned out, pleasant, engaged and smiley, checking NOTAMs on a clipboard and maybe discussing the MET with whoever is around - "looks like that front will be coming through here at around 1300, should be OK after that.....", "and there is a Royal flight at xx:xx in xxx and parachuting at xxx "etc,
Chatting with the other students: "Hi, how's it going? which exercise are you doing today ?......Oh cool, I haven't done that one yet, any chance of me riding in the back, just to get my head around it ?".
And ask an instructor or a student about a theory or flying question that you are "trying to work out".
Etc.
The fATPL won't be handed to you on a plate. Yes the school should be helping, but you have to work bloody hard for it and put in lots and lots of hours yourself, (see next post).
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but anti climax when the briefing for an airline job is two minutes checking the TAF on your phone on the crew bus whilst you rummage around to try and find your tie because it’s 4am and you you’ve left any remnants of capacity back in bed whilst slamming some leftover pretzels
NOTAMS suggest Malaga hasn’t disappeared since last week, and the only tech issue a nav light out. And unsurprisingly ops haven’t filed your flight plan through volcanoes or Ukraine. The glamour
Got to get there though, and clearly that’s slightly tongue in cheek. Though I wouldn’t go overkill. If you’re not flying for a week and spend 40 hours just sat in an ops room chatting to the odd person, getting in the way and achieving nothing, that’s absolutely soul destroying.
OP. Just to agree with what you said about letting her speak to the school herself. Whilst you’re likely bankrolling the majority of it, and have a vested interest, you’re not the student. That you think she should be flying more is, to them at least, largely irrelevant.
She is the customer.
She is the one to be driving this. Otherwise the other students will watch as Daddy strides in and demands his daughter gets to fly more, well intentioned yes, but trust me that won’t be a good look.
She’s got this far, you don’t get this far without motivation and having something about you, she’ll be fine once she’s having the right conversations with them.
Guidance not direction would be advised.