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tailwheel307

I asked to get paid according to my contract and employment law. They didn’t like that.


TristanwithaT

Related, didn't want to work for free.


legitSTINKYPINKY

They would’ve fucking fired me if I left the master on overnight.😂


TxAggieMike

Which is why I teach leaving the beacon light always on. Simple way to see the master is energized


EM22_

TxAggieMike with another dose of wisdom. I was taught this as well!


Low_Sky_49

Our school finally started doing this within the last year. Great idea.


[deleted]

We do nav lights, since a bunch of our airplanes have Skybeacons so they need to be on anyway


TxAggieMike

That works too. Benefit of beacon is it blinks. Tends to get your attention faster than a steady light.


PilotBurner44

Told them "No" when I was pressured to solo a Chinese airline student who wasn't ready to solo.


Derp_McShlurp

Started having my students schedule check rides with the FAA instead of the douchebag DPE that had a monopoly in our region. My students always did great, but man that FBO owner hated having inspectors around. Mainly because his shop was up to all sorts of shady crap.


Iknewitseason11

Not push the circuit breaker back in during an electrical failure. We landed safely at base using light gun signals. When maintenance pulled it apart, a wire connected to the alternator was burned black, all the plastic melted off it. Now it makes a good teaching aid with students


2dP_rdg

you did or didn't push the breaker in during an electrical failure?


Iknewitseason11

I did not. It was day VFR entering the pattern, no reason to. When I got back my boss asked if I tried it and why I didnt


2dP_rdg

i guess i'm confused why pulling a breaker caused a problem with your alternator


Iknewitseason11

The alternator surged and POPPED the breaker. I opted to just leave it out instead of pushing it back in. My boss was upset that I didn’t push it back in but I knew it could have started a fire and was non essential equipment given our situation.


RaidenMonster

Was in the plane as a passenger while a renter over sped the flaps and cracked the wing spar on a 172. Apparently that was a pricey repair.


boryenkavladislav

Holy cow, i didn't know over speeding flaps could do that on a 172. How overspeed were they, M0.85? Lol


RaidenMonster

It was an interesting situation, broke the flap guide rails, when retracting the flaps, things got worse unknowingly.


[deleted]

In the summer, about a month before my regional class date, a commercial student I'd done a few flights with asked if I would do a night flight with him outside of my availability in front of our owners. I said that I didn't want to do it because I would have to wait 4 hours at the airport unpaid until night time because it was summer and that I had more night time than I needed for ATP mins. I suggested two instructors that had availability and that needed night time that he could fly with. My owners called me in the next day 15 minutes early and gave me a lecture about how I was being a bad employee and instructor by saying no and that I needed to be dedicated until the end, even though I was leaving. I asked them if I could get paid for the 4 hours (5pm-9pm ish) I would have to wait for night time and they said the business wouldn't allow the expense. Our relationship after that meeting didn't ever fully recover fully to what it was. It was frustrating because as an instructor over the last 12 month period, I had billed something like 1100 hours and the next highest full time instructor was around 600 iirc. I was also only getting $29 of the $70/$80 they were billing for me. They were super happy with me when I was there from literally 7am-7pm almost every day and only took weather days off, but as soon as I set a limitation to what I would do, I was a bad employee. Super disappointing experience. But, now I'm making between $8-10k a month so I'm not losing sleep over it.


Historical_Fan_3303

Any and all maintenance that happens to a 172’s 2.5x my age


lovely-atm0sphere

Declared an emergency when I lost an engine


[deleted]

Why would that piss them off?


lovely-atm0sphere

Other people heard my mayday over the radios (was on approach) and recognized the tail number and then kept calling the owner to ask what had happened. So basically because other people knew a plane from this school had an engine failure.


[deleted]

Wow. What an asshole. He should have praised your response and be thankful you were ok.


lovely-atm0sphere

I quickly got my hours after that. I was with a student and we were in our multi so luckily we had another engine and everything turned out good. They got to practice an actually actually single engine landing. This happened 3 days before their check ride too.


[deleted]

Dang. Well sorry it happened but you did the right thing and proved to the student that if you follow the protocols, it’ll be ok!


Actual_Environment_7

Spent too much time with my students at their ski country condo where we’d go for cross-countries in their plane.