FAA CRASHPADS Just 5m from the FAA Academy!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClearanceClarence" data-source="post: 53367" data-attributes="member: 9439">The individual mentioned on the last page was an interesting character, and really serves as a great example of behaviors to avoid at the Academy. Like Hyooz referenced, he had a very confrontational/argumentative attitude towards anyone who tried to help him (leads, row instructors, even fellow classmates at times). He constantly complained about how ‘stupid’ everything was and how none of the concepts were logical, etc. That may be true in some instances, but in OKC, you need to adopt the “sky is green” philosophy as our instructor put it. In other words, you are here to learn things the FAA’s way, so do so. Whether it makes sense or not, just prove that you can do as you are told and follow whatever rules they have established. Constantly complaining and arguing is never going to help, if anything, it will make instructors less willing to help you.This individual also adopted a weird persona that was probably detrimental to himself in the end. Even though it was pretty clear from day one that he was not one of the strongest in the class, he loved to act like he knew his shit better than anyone. If you partnered up with him, he’d point out all your ‘mistakes’, even giggling when a you made an error. But then this was the same guy who would read phraseology off the paper on the wall during mid-teens non-radar problems. And he did indeed regularly lie about having clean sheets to everyone else. Maybe it made him feel better about himself, or maybe the whole thing was just a game to him. Who knows, but it ended up isolating him from a lot of the others. In the end, he went into evals with the lowest point count and washed after just 2 runs. Don’t let this be you be Oklahoma.</blockquote>

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