Back in the Saddle Again…
Well, I’m back at school at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. I’m still trying to finish up the commercial building time course I’m in and pass that checkride within the next few weeks. Although I don’t anticipate it to be too hard, I’ve been assigned to a new instructor with his own way of doing things and I have a tendancy to become anti-authority and be very easily intimidated on checkrides. At this point I almost wish I had just stuck with doing the whole thing privately, since most people I meet in the aviation program have a general lack of ability to think for themselves and instead they opt to follow the book on everything. And I mean everything. Also, the chief flight instructors thought it would be a good idea to now require us to wear collared shirts and dress pants with dress shoes whenever we’re on the aviation campus. Last I checked, this was SIU, not Embry or Flight Safety. If I had wanted to be someplace like that, I would’ve gone there in the first place. So, I plan to boycott the issue in the hopes that most others will do the same. It’s issues like that that make me want to transfer even more.
