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INSTRUCTOR REPORT

THE SKY BECKONS
EMBRACE YOUR FREEDOM AND INSPIRE YOUR TRAINING
BY GARRETT DEMEYER

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"Find ways to combine a
training begins with an innate love of the
student's other activities with
sky. Thoughts of cars scurrying below; a
flying opportunities. When an
golden sunset casting a soft glow into the
cockpit; and a clear, beckoning sky inspire instrument student of mine had
us to fly. But too often these romantic ideas to go to Prince Edward Island,
Canada, on business, we made a
are brushed aside by instructors narcross-country out of it, complete
rowly focused on following a set training
guideline, and students forget why they're with clearing customs."
learning to fly. Where did the fun go?
-Dan Namowitz, AOPA associate editor
I am a sophomore at a college with a
large professional aviation program, but, being a physics student, I sadly get little stick
time when I'm at school. Waiting outside a classroom, I heard someone exclaim, "Ugh,
I have to go fly today." I was baffled. How could someone be upset at the prospect of
spending time in the wild blue? I realized that in the push to get pilots through their
checkrides as quickly as possible, many pilots lose sight of why we started flying in the
first place. Inflexible training requirements leave little time for fun.
The freedom of flight in the United States is something we often take for granted.
If I wanted to, I could walk into my flying club, grab the first airplane on the ramp, fire
it up, and fly to wherever I please. For most destinations, I wouldn't have to file any
paperwork or ask anyone's permission. There are no checkpoints, no tolls, and no speed
traps. Once aloft I am in control of my destiny-to borrow from the poet William Ernest
Henley, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

TIP: "Invite a significant other or

friend along for a flight and go have
lunch somewhere. I know somebody who one time used a training
trip to go pick up a puppy they had
purchased."

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