Hey Michael! My name is Peter and I’ve been working on getting my medical. I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school and was taking prescriptions until senior year. My AME told me I had to quit the medication and take an expensive neuropsych examination (nearly $4000 which I hadn’t accounted for) this really discouraged me. It took me months to work up the courage, and finances. When I finically pulled the trigger, I passed and I couldn’t have been more relieved. I’m now doing a sleep study before I start my process with ATP… I think everyone needs to see this video, aviation is tough, but nothing great ever came from something easy. If anyone is struggling with the process, don’t give up. You got this and these hurdles were put in place for you to prove to yourself that you can accomplish this. Happy day everyone! Blue skies to you all!!!
I wish I saw this video before starting flight training thanks for being straightforward ! it’s really hard right now but going solo soon and struggling in navigation right now though
Thank you for the encouraging words. It's easy to think the process is ABC but in reality, A comes with emotional and physical hurdles you never expected.
Thanks man. I have my multi commercial / IFR but I’m at 200 hours. Seeing no other way to build up my hours other than CFI so I’m currently enrolled in it. But that lack of motivation is hitting harder than ever at this point. Thanks for the tips
Thank you lots ! For those believing in karma or faith.... this video was literally clicked accidentally while phone in my pocket... Started playing by itself...so i pull out my phone.... !!! Perfect timing !!! ...cuz i was feeling down in my aviation journey. Future pilots.....never give up.... Keep the blue side up and a positive attitude ( unless u in a 🛩️Extra300 🛩️ )
Thank you so much for sharing your story and putting out this type of content. I am about to start my journey this week with my discovery flight! 👩🏾✈️
Wow, I can totally relate to this video!!!! Im also struggling with money, and Ive got my PPL & Night Rating. I have one CPL exam left and started my first job. I got so drifted from flying I started getting second thoughts in becoming a pilot. But then I saw this video just now and I now know these thoughts are normal, but you shouldn't act upon them. Im the first and only pilot in my family, so being motivated is very difficult!! But like you said, get a mentor and keep youre eye on prize!! Thank you!!!
This is a really good video. I'm going to go ahead and say what I think is the biggest problem for any person in flight training. Well as far as I can break it down. Consistency. And confidence. You'll hear a lot of people tell you things like "your consistency really matters. If you don't go flying and doing a ground every day you will lose all your consistency. Are you basically forget how to fly how to do all your patterns had a navigate how to do all your communication all you knowledge etcetera." I think it's both an overrated statement and an underrated statement. It's overrated in the sense that I think there's some things you get really good at in flying that you never forget. I wish I could give you a list and break down those things on what it is that you never forget almost like you're riding a bicycle. I couldn't tell you and it's different for every person. Like I wish I could but there's no way I can come up with a list that for each person would explain what it is you don't forget. But I do feel like with flying there's certain things that you could just stop for a year and if you were doing really well before you stopped you're going to remember it and pick right back up on it. Other things I think you get rusty on when you don't fly everyday. So does that mean that you will get better if you make sure to be consistent and fly as much as possible? Well yeah of course. It's just impossible for me to think that any place you can get Flight Training aside from the military is going to be able to give you more than an hour or so of flying and ground time of day. Just impossible. Like I assume a smart person would want to train as much as their instructor. They would want to go flying and do a ground flying and do a ground flying and do a ground like 6 hours a day everyday. It's simply impossible. The thought is very nice though. What I think though is this presents a big hurdle for people who go with someone that has hundreds of hours on them possibly thousands of hours on them and that person expects them to start flying as well as they do and starts setting time limits on people. I've seen it happen a million times. "My other student did this and this many hours and this many things and did dis well and did this and could do all this and practically with his eyes closed blah blah blah but of course now with his eyes closed because he's so good on his grounds and he knows his safety procedures and knows exactly what sensory nerves will be affected when you create an IFR condition so he's never going to close his eyes but he could do all this stuff with his eyes closed then read the section with his eyes closed and he's doing 10000 Radio Calls and flown I don't know how many miles and how many hours and he's so good at all his Maneuvers and blah blah blah." This right here is a recipe for failure. Setting time limits and I'll tell you why. Wait I don't need to tell you why do I?😂 I just did. You don't think the thing with flying is it when you're very new to it and you don't have a lot of experience all this stuff seems very tough the way the engine work seems very tough the way the aerodynamics work seems very tough all that navigating communicating just seem so tough It's just something you don't do when you drive your car you just don't look at a map of everything around you and everything underneath you with all these different rules and procedures and communication techniques and then at the same time have somebody in your ear saying "aviate navigate communicate the most important things you fly really well and pay attention to your aircraft in your AirSpeed and altitude and all that because you're not going to die to make a bad radio call you get a little off on your course you're going to die if you can't fly correctly." But then also say "man if we do this cross-country again and you can't remember the direction you can't remember the radio called then you are going to fail your check ride and you're going to fail all your solos and you're never going to get to CFI you're never going to get the commercial and you never going to get to CFI blah blah blah." You will literally feel like you are in a living contradiction of a situation where in one moment you feel the most important thing you can do is just go flying come back alive caught a good flight get another hour called experience I know that you did well because you made aviate the most important thing then it was navigate then it was communicate. But now you have somebody in your ear telling you you need to do so much better do so much better do so much better because no Tower is going to accept that crappy radio call even if you just did a flight made a call to the Tower for whatever request you made the guy was totally happy and cleared you but now you feel like you're in trouble because you have to just totally focus on this thing like this radio but previously you were under the impression that the radio was not the most important part. What does it come down to? Consistency. Practice. Consistency. Practice. And it's hard to get. It's really really hard to get all the consistency. It's really hard to get all the practice. It's really hard to get the time in that you really want in the short amount of time that you need to get in to really just make everything you're doing 2nd nature muscle memory where you can aviate navigate communicate but also not mess up on the little details you need to not mess up on to not mess up your check ride. Another thing is you might think it's really easy to recognize these really bad instructors that have a lot of time on you and start trying to compare you to himself and expect you in a time that's a percentage of the time they have to do as well as they do? I don't think it's easy at all! A lot of them will start either for the first month or two or something you go flying with them and you do all these groundless with them is like these magical people with tons of patience and tons of wisdom and experience and they're so good at guidance at some point they just turn around and become like Nazis! Why? I really don't know many of them don't have the patience to try and expect you to apply the things that they themselves don't apply. They tell you to get really good at this and you get really good at this they tell you to get really good at that and you get really good at that it goes on and on and on like this and then at some point they're just like "wow man you are such a failure you would never pass any checkride!" It will make you literally want to pull your head off your shoulders and throw your head off until like some other planet like pull your head off your shoulders and throw it up in the air until it lands on mars or something. You have to have a lot of patience you have to remember there's a lot of really crappy ass people out there. Is Newton's third law and Bernoulli's principle and the lift equation and your poh and your sectional really easy to memorize almost like the back of your hand and the exact fundamental way in which you apply this knowledge to what you doing like the back of your hand? 😂 Well is it easy to ride around your block with a magnifying glass and memorize every single little insect is crawling on the ground outside of every little house? If you do it all day everyday sure enough! Doesn't mean it's just going to happen like that in 5 minutes. Let me give you the best advice anyone has ever given me. Aviate navigate communicate. Go out flying hasn't controls perform all your maneuvers come back alive and then go through with your instructor the sectional and your POH and read through the FAR. It's so easy it's not even funny and it gets easier and easier and easier and easier and it just gets so easy it's not even funny. Watch out for people that set time limits! "Oh man by this point I expected you to be so far etcetera etcetera I'm so disappointed excetera excetera." Screw those people! If someone has 1500 hours on you than they have like 10 times the time you have. If they have like 300 hours they are like brand new and they know like nothing. At least by comparison they don't have a lot more experience than you. Remember to keep your head about you and enjoy yourself! Setting impossible goals makes no sense you know you're doing something right if it just gets easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and it should no matter what I should just get easier no matter what every time. That means you're learning. You're coming back alive. You're good pilot. There are some real jerks out there and they might not start out as jerks they might start out as really calm people that give you the same advice and I'm giving you and then turn around and start contradicting the same advice. It can be really frustrating when someone turns around and they were really nice and they become a total jerk. I assume that anybody that goes to the training and reads through all the serious amounts of safety things that you need to read through will understand that part of being safe is being emotionally sound if someone is angry they are not emotionally sound and they should not be giving you lessons about safety. If your flight school doesn't fire that person its just is too bad it's really a mark on the flight school to begin with. Also some of these people can be real with manipulative so the flight school itself may not even know. Some of these people are real dip wads that act really cool and then turn around and stab you in the back. They are tired of being an instructor they don't want to do anymore they want to get off to some other job and they find out the hour requirements are a little bit higher. Then you can't handle things and just become total assholes. They probably shouldn't be Pilots like that acting that way anyway so just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get there. Good video! Good advice!
many realize there is no pilot shortage and, and getting flying jobs is very difficult, and spending over 100,000 for flight training and the collage needed, being totally broke and maybe not having a job, this is not a plan.
Hey Michael! My name is Peter and I’ve been working on getting my medical. I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school and was taking prescriptions until senior year. My AME told me I had to quit the medication and take an expensive neuropsych examination (nearly $4000 which I hadn’t accounted for) this really discouraged me. It took me months to work up the courage, and finances. When I finically pulled the trigger, I passed and I couldn’t have been more relieved. I’m now doing a sleep study before I start my process with ATP…
I think everyone needs to see this video, aviation is tough, but nothing great ever came from something easy. If anyone is struggling with the process, don’t give up. You got this and these hurdles were put in place for you to prove to yourself that you can accomplish this.
Happy day everyone! Blue skies to you all!!!
I wish I saw this video before starting flight training thanks for being straightforward ! it’s really hard right now but going solo soon and struggling in navigation right now though
Thank you for the encouraging words. It's easy to think the process is ABC but in reality, A comes with emotional and physical hurdles you never expected.
Thanks man. I have my multi commercial / IFR but I’m at 200 hours. Seeing no other way to build up my hours other than CFI so I’m currently enrolled in it. But that lack of motivation is hitting harder than ever at this point. Thanks for the tips
Hi Michael. Thank you for the encouraging words. I just started flight school JAN 8 2024.
great info and great video, sir!
Love the videos. Currently getting my private pilot license. First solo on Saturday
Thanks for the video
Thank you lots !
For those believing in karma or faith.... this video was literally clicked accidentally while phone in my pocket...
Started playing by itself...so i pull out my phone....
!!! Perfect timing !!!
...cuz i was feeling down in my aviation journey.
Future pilots.....never give up....
Keep the blue side up and a positive attitude
( unless u in a 🛩️Extra300 🛩️ )
thanks man
Thank you so much for sharing your story and putting out this type of content. I am about to start my journey this week with my discovery flight! 👩🏾✈️
Wow, I can totally relate to this video!!!!
Im also struggling with money, and Ive got my PPL & Night Rating. I have one CPL exam left and started my first job. I got so drifted from flying I started getting second thoughts in becoming a pilot. But then I saw this video just now and I now know these thoughts are normal, but you shouldn't act upon them.
Im the first and only pilot in my family, so being motivated is very difficult!! But like you said, get a mentor and keep youre eye on prize!!
Thank you!!!
Great info Mike . It isn't easy training to become a pilot. Thanks for the motivation.
Thank you for these videos Michael! Truly great information please keep doing what your doing ✈️
Great content! Love the information
This is a really good video. I'm going to go ahead and say what I think is the biggest problem for any person in flight training. Well as far as I can break it down. Consistency. And confidence. You'll hear a lot of people tell you things like "your consistency really matters. If you don't go flying and doing a ground every day you will lose all your consistency. Are you basically forget how to fly how to do all your patterns had a navigate how to do all your communication all you knowledge etcetera." I think it's both an overrated statement and an underrated statement. It's overrated in the sense that I think there's some things you get really good at in flying that you never forget. I wish I could give you a list and break down those things on what it is that you never forget almost like you're riding a bicycle. I couldn't tell you and it's different for every person. Like I wish I could but there's no way I can come up with a list that for each person would explain what it is you don't forget. But I do feel like with flying there's certain things that you could just stop for a year and if you were doing really well before you stopped you're going to remember it and pick right back up on it. Other things I think you get rusty on when you don't fly everyday. So does that mean that you will get better if you make sure to be consistent and fly as much as possible? Well yeah of course. It's just impossible for me to think that any place you can get Flight Training aside from the military is going to be able to give you more than an hour or so of flying and ground time of day. Just impossible. Like I assume a smart person would want to train as much as their instructor. They would want to go flying and do a ground flying and do a ground flying and do a ground like 6 hours a day everyday. It's simply impossible. The thought is very nice though. What I think though is this presents a big hurdle for people who go with someone that has hundreds of hours on them possibly thousands of hours on them and that person expects them to start flying as well as they do and starts setting time limits on people. I've seen it happen a million times. "My other student did this and this many hours and this many things and did dis well and did this and could do all this and practically with his eyes closed blah blah blah but of course now with his eyes closed because he's so good on his grounds and he knows his safety procedures and knows exactly what sensory nerves will be affected when you create an IFR condition so he's never going to close his eyes but he could do all this stuff with his eyes closed then read the section with his eyes closed and he's doing 10000 Radio Calls and flown I don't know how many miles and how many hours and he's so good at all his Maneuvers and blah blah blah." This right here is a recipe for failure. Setting time limits and I'll tell you why. Wait I don't need to tell you why do I?😂 I just did. You don't think the thing with flying is it when you're very new to it and you don't have a lot of experience all this stuff seems very tough the way the engine work seems very tough the way the aerodynamics work seems very tough all that navigating communicating just seem so tough It's just something you don't do when you drive your car you just don't look at a map of everything around you and everything underneath you with all these different rules and procedures and communication techniques and then at the same time have somebody in your ear saying "aviate navigate communicate the most important things you fly really well and pay attention to your aircraft in your AirSpeed and altitude and all that because you're not going to die to make a bad radio call you get a little off on your course you're going to die if you can't fly correctly." But then also say "man if we do this cross-country again and you can't remember the direction you can't remember the radio called then you are going to fail your check ride and you're going to fail all your solos and you're never going to get to CFI you're never going to get the commercial and you never going to get to CFI blah blah blah." You will literally feel like you are in a living contradiction of a situation where in one moment you feel the most important thing you can do is just go flying come back alive caught a good flight get another hour called experience I know that you did well because you made aviate the most important thing then it was navigate then it was communicate. But now you have somebody in your ear telling you you need to do so much better do so much better do so much better because no Tower is going to accept that crappy radio call even if you just did a flight made a call to the Tower for whatever request you made the guy was totally happy and cleared you but now you feel like you're in trouble because you have to just totally focus on this thing like this radio but previously you were under the impression that the radio was not the most important part. What does it come down to? Consistency. Practice. Consistency. Practice. And it's hard to get. It's really really hard to get all the consistency. It's really hard to get all the practice. It's really hard to get the time in that you really want in the short amount of time that you need to get in to really just make everything you're doing 2nd nature muscle memory where you can aviate navigate communicate but also not mess up on the little details you need to not mess up on to not mess up your check ride. Another thing is you might think it's really easy to recognize these really bad instructors that have a lot of time on you and start trying to compare you to himself and expect you in a time that's a percentage of the time they have to do as well as they do? I don't think it's easy at all! A lot of them will start either for the first month or two or something you go flying with them and you do all these groundless with them is like these magical people with tons of patience and tons of wisdom and experience and they're so good at guidance at some point they just turn around and become like Nazis! Why? I really don't know many of them don't have the patience to try and expect you to apply the things that they themselves don't apply. They tell you to get really good at this and you get really good at this they tell you to get really good at that and you get really good at that it goes on and on and on like this and then at some point they're just like "wow man you are such a failure you would never pass any checkride!" It will make you literally want to pull your head off your shoulders and throw your head off until like some other planet like pull your head off your shoulders and throw it up in the air until it lands on mars or something. You have to have a lot of patience you have to remember there's a lot of really crappy ass people out there. Is Newton's third law and Bernoulli's principle and the lift equation and your poh and your sectional really easy to memorize almost like the back of your hand and the exact fundamental way in which you apply this knowledge to what you doing like the back of your hand? 😂 Well is it easy to ride around your block with a magnifying glass and memorize every single little insect is crawling on the ground outside of every little house? If you do it all day everyday sure enough! Doesn't mean it's just going to happen like that in 5 minutes. Let me give you the best advice anyone has ever given me. Aviate navigate communicate. Go out flying hasn't controls perform all your maneuvers come back alive and then go through with your instructor the sectional and your POH and read through the FAR. It's so easy it's not even funny and it gets easier and easier and easier and easier and it just gets so easy it's not even funny. Watch out for people that set time limits! "Oh man by this point I expected you to be so far etcetera etcetera I'm so disappointed excetera excetera." Screw those people! If someone has 1500 hours on you than they have like 10 times the time you have. If they have like 300 hours they are like brand new and they know like nothing. At least by comparison they don't have a lot more experience than you. Remember to keep your head about you and enjoy yourself! Setting impossible goals makes no sense you know you're doing something right if it just gets easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and easier and it should no matter what I should just get easier no matter what every time. That means you're learning. You're coming back alive. You're good pilot. There are some real jerks out there and they might not start out as jerks they might start out as really calm people that give you the same advice and I'm giving you and then turn around and start contradicting the same advice. It can be really frustrating when someone turns around and they were really nice and they become a total jerk. I assume that anybody that goes to the training and reads through all the serious amounts of safety things that you need to read through will understand that part of being safe is being emotionally sound if someone is angry they are not emotionally sound and they should not be giving you lessons about safety. If your flight school doesn't fire that person its just is too bad it's really a mark on the flight school to begin with. Also some of these people can be real with manipulative so the flight school itself may not even know. Some of these people are real dip wads that act really cool and then turn around and stab you in the back. They are tired of being an instructor they don't want to do anymore they want to get off to some other job and they find out the hour requirements are a little bit higher. Then you can't handle things and just become total assholes. They probably shouldn't be Pilots like that acting that way anyway so just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get there. Good video! Good advice!
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many realize there is no pilot shortage and, and getting flying jobs is very difficult, and spending over 100,000 for flight training and the collage needed, being totally broke and maybe not having a job, this is not a plan.