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Old 27th February 2011 | 22:24
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FlyingForFun

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Every instructor will of course come from a different background. I can only speak for myself. But I wouldn't have had answers to a question like that from my PPL students, especially when I first started working as an instructor.

I learnt to fly at White Waltham. Before becoming an instructor, I flew around the south of England lots, knew the best places to go, and had some great experiences. Some of my best flying experiences, though, were when I went to Arizona to do my hour-building. I've always been more than happy to share those experiences with anyone who cares to ask (and sometimes with people who don't care!)

I then got a job flying out of Blackpool airport. I'd never been to Blackpool airport before. In fact, I'd never even used the North of England VFR chart before! It's a long way away from either White Waltham or Arizona. In the 2 years I worked out of Blackpool, I did only a very small amount of private flying (PPL instructors aren't paid well enough to do lots of their own flying). I did, over those 2 years, learn about the most common places that people liked to go. Every now and then, I'd get to go to these places myself. (Two friends each booking a 60-minute trial lesson in a 4-seat aircraft is a good one - you can get one friend to fly you somewhere, have a bite to eat, and get the other friend to fly back.) But mostly I picked up what the local pilots talked about around the clubhouse, even though I rarely got to go to these places myself. Kirkbride was one of the most popular places to fly to - but because it's unlicensed, I couldn't go there with students at all.

So there you have it - one instructor's story as to why he is so "boring"! I'm sure other instructors have similar stories!

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