The Strength of Asking For Help
NAFI NOTAMs #32 |
The Strength of Asking For Help~Guest Blogger Aaron Dabney, MSEd, MCFIWhen I was a brand-new CFI, I was a chief pilot of one. Literally. I’d been given the keys to an office, a nice airplane, and a mandate to figure out how to make a flight school work at an airport where there had been no home-based school in nearly a decade. It was awkward enough that I was pretty new to the aviation community in my area, but the audacity of standing up a flight school with the ink still wet on my certificate had me convinced that asking for help was the last thing I should do if I was to be taken seriously. If that wasn’t enough, I had (and still have, if I’m honest) this independent streak that thrived on the idea of “me versus the world.” If I couldn’t figure it out for myself, maybe I wasn’t good enough. |