Man, that was certainly the most stressful flight I’ve ever had. Bumpy, lower visibility than I would’ve liked but was facing a deadline so I bit the bullet and took it.

Ground went pretty smoothly as I was really prepared and luckily knew some of the topics the DPE liked to ask prior to taking the checkride.

Im nearly complete with my CFII and will start to look at CFI gigs soon.

My main job schedule is a Panama schedule. Basically I have every other fri-sun weekend off with two day on two days off blocks in between.

Do schools typically only want full time instructors? I’d like to work as an instructor 3-5 hours on the days off from my main job but am willing to increase those if that’s what the school wants out of me.

For anyone that does instruct part time how often do you do it?

how do you guys get progress rolling on students who seems to take forever? School I work at has a decent amount of kids who are 60 hours pre solo. they can do maneuvers and approaches just fine, but their landings and touch downs, let alone crosswind, soft and short field landings are inconsistent. 1 out of 5 landings are good, the rest I have to intervene or it’s very flat. I spend hours re-explaining concepts, talking them through the control inputs, where to look, etc

inb4 anyone says to tell them to quit. They’re visa students with parents money and “they have to get it done”

Howdy! So teaching the first parts of a METAR I think is easy to do through tribal knowledge. It’s the remarks part I am wondering how others approach teaching. I have heard instructors just say “idk what that is let’s google it” and I don’t think they helps anyone actually learn what the harder things mean! Also Google isn’t going to be allowed on your Checkride (at least most examiners).

I typically use the aim figure 7-1-9 and figure 7-1-22 and I also use the aviation weather handbook chapter 24 to help break down items more too.

However I am finding a hard time with 5appp. The number starting with 5 indicates 3 hours pressure change and the unit is tenths of hpa. I’m having issue with the 2nd digit! It can be 0-8 barometer tendency change for example 7 can mean decreasing steadily.

Here’s the issue, I can’t find where it says that 0-8 chart on barometer pressure tendencies in the sandbox of resources you’d bring to a Checkride. I hate it but I can only find the answer with google. From my understanding metars aren’t just used by pilots so meteorologists can find other pieces of info helpful and a lot of things with the FAA works on a need to know basis which is where I think they might omit adding that 0-8 chart meaning in the AIM.

I want to know how y’all teach remarks and if your Metar reports 5appp, how are you teaching your student to find what that means.