15 Flight Training, Flying & Aviation Career Questions — Motivation Monday #6

https://youtu.be/ZPgnJJCmi2g

Questions on this episode:

1:01 What do you think of programs like Sheppard Air for written test?

2:46 Would you recommend buying or renting an airplane?

4:13 iPad mini or iPad Pro (11”)?

6:03 Do you know of crossovers between being a pilot and geologist?

7:38 What is the hardest instrument approach you have ever flown?

8:53 Where do most examiners stand on allowing ForeFlight on an instrument checkride?

10:33 How do I get the correct tone of “Cleeaaar Prooopp” with my voice?

11:15 How do you determine when you are proficient enough as a new pilot to safely fly family and friends?

13:43 How to stay motivated/proficient after getting private?

16:27 How can you increase opportunities to fly after ppl? (finances)

18:31 Equipment question: which sunglasses should I buy for flying?

20:42 Going for my commercial checkride here soon. Any final tips?

23:46 Tips for a new CFI?

25:30 What is your opinion about flight simulators? Do you recommend for home training?

27:43 What’s the hardest thing about IFR?

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Episode Transcript

Hello aviators. My name is Chris Palmer from Angle of Attack. This is another episode of motivation Monday where I answer questions live for you in the community about flight training, the aviation careers that you may be getting into, any technical stuff that you’re going through on your written tests or your online ground school, and this is just a place to kind of gather all those information, all those questions every Monday and just kind of give you my candid thoughts, my candid advice on those subjects. So you’re going to find a lot of information here. Those are searchable down below in the description, and so if you just want to search for something that’s applicable to you, you can click the time code and that’ll jump you ahead to that point in the video. Also, please give us a thumbs up and subscribe, share. Please be part of this community. Comment.

I’d love to hear from you and continue on the conversation, and great to have you here. So hope that some of these questions are things that you have as well and they do become helpful. Enjoy this motivation Monday. This question, what do you think of programs like Sheppard Air for the written test? So Sheppard Air is this very popular written test preparation software that’s out there and really it’s literally wrote memorization for the written test. I’ve done it before myself for the CFII test. That’s the only one I’ve done it for and it was very effective in pulling out the questions that were going to be on the test, the block that they were currently working with, but the limitation to the Sheppard Air is it’s kind of like a shortcut or a hack that a lot of people are using instead of actually doing the full knowledge study of the subject that they’re in, and so I think it is a good program to get in the high nineties for your test, however, it is not something to use to study for your test.

In other words, you need to be going through and doing the knowledge in a true thorough ground school, and then if you really want to polish it off as something like Sheppard Air, you’re more than welcome to do that. I think for the most part it’s unnecessary, and what I’ve noticed is that most people are confusing it with actual study of the written test material, the knowledge you need for a certain discipline, and they’re using that instead of … they’re using Sheppard Air instead of doing the hard work. I don’t think that benefits anyone longterm and so I’m kind of against it in a way,