The student pilot view

"Never talk defeat. Use word like hope, belief, faith, victory"
Norman Vincent Peale.

Here we are again. Thanks for coming back! The career is in the standby mode for a little while. I need a flight permit to start the multi-engine training, and the documents are supposed to be delivered to the aeronautical authority in the next days. I got some checklists for the Piper Aztec (PA-23) that is the airplane in which I'm supposed to get the training, looks just great! It is a twin engine piston airplane, it has turbo-engines, I'll be anxiously waiting the moment to start flying that beauty.

Aviation career it's very nice, it is kind of unique, it is uncommon and for many it is something strange. But however you find it it is still being for many of us our passion. Yesterday at my french class when the teacher knew what I was studying she got surprised and told me that I might be intelligent in order to study aviation, she said that not everybody can do that. I'm still trying to understand why she said that. Chatting with a friend the other day we were talking that a good pilot must have at least a combination of two things: one is to know the theory that we need to know in order to assure safety on the flights that we are, and the other one is the flying skill. And we know a good pilot may have two of those "qualities", but if you ask me what makes a good pilot is something I won't be able to answer because I'm still looking for that answer. What we student pilots (and not only student pilots) can do now is to do our best, studying what we have to study and doing our best on each flight.

Whoever you talk to will tell you as pilot to hurry up with the training because there are opportunities everywhere, and in fact they are around but how to get into them? I don't know when am I going to be able to get the commercial license, but when I get it it is uncertain how much time I'll have to wait in order to get a job. Even though I'll do my best trying to get one. "How much I'll have to wait?". At the time I would be asking myself that I'm sure I won't be the only one asking that. TO WAIT, something that goes together with the pilot's life. Many pilots have told me about the relation between the pilot and the waiting situation. First you wait the time to start flying, then you wait to get you license, after you start looking for and waiting for a job, when you get one you start waiting to be finally hired, then you wait to start initial training, then you wait for passengers to arrive, you wait for your days off, and after many years you start waiting for your retirement day. Waiting, we new pilots must be getting used to this action, and be patient enough to deal with this, and maybe after waiting a little or a lot a good opportunity is going to come. We must be patient, persist and work hard in order to one day get a seat in the office that many of us want: a flight deck.

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
Vince Lombardi

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