Yesterday, I successfully met the requirements to become a Certified Flight Instructor! The preparation for this day has been going on the past 9 weeks, and boy was it hard. The course required everyone enrolled in the class (8 of us) to compile a binder with 71 Lesson Plans inside of it to teach to our students. Mine ended up being close to I believe 700 pages, double sided at that, and we had 6 weeks to complete it along with flying everyday we could. If we didn't fly, we taught lessons to our instructors (90 minutes). And then in the afternoons, we had a ground class that lasted 3 hours everyday, Monday-Friday, for 6 weeks. I taught 3 times, and went the full 3 hours each day. The exam itself (the final for lack of better term) was a 5.2 hour discussion on the ground, and the flight was just under 2 hours coming in at 1.7. We broke up the exam over a period of days due to bad weather but had we done everything in the same day, it would have been a 8AM-4/5PM affair. The amount of stress that has been temporarily relieved is so comforting now that this is over. I am so happy to finally achieve this accomplishment as I have been working towards it the past 4 years since I was in High School, and am now entering my final year as a college student. Oh, and one more thing, for any Boilermakers in here, Boiler Up!! Who wants to go fly!?
