Who Would Make A Good Mentor?
Look around the FBO or flying club. Look for a person who may look a bit worn around the edges. Look for the fellow in the corner, sipping his coffee and just taking it all in — probably the folks with the more exciting “There I was inverted at 10,000 feet” stories are not the folks you’ll be interested in. And, with the risk of offending a few here, you probably don’t want the guy with the huge, shiny new Jepp bag stuffed with every gadget Sporty sells. (I’ve found that lots of times the experience of the pilot is in inverse proportion to the size of the flight bag. Airline pilots must haul those things around. The rest of us usually don’t. How many Jepp binders does it take to fly a C-172?) Look for a pilot with at least four digits logged as total time and look for someone who is at least half the way to five digits. (That doesn’t count decimals. We’re looking for at least four digits to the left of the decimal point.) I’m not saying that folks with lower total times don’t know wha
