Yes fans, that's right! I am now an official Civil Air Patrol Transport Mission Pilot.
One of the things I found interesting when I started jumpmastering and instructing skydiving was how many people dropped out of the sport once they got off of student status.
I think the reason was that while they were students, they had a series of goals that were perceived as attainable and were incremental enough that they could be achieved reasonably quickly. But, once they reached the major milestone of getting off of student status, either they dropped out because they had been hanging in just to reach the major goal, or because the next major goal - an "A" license, was too nebulous and too big a leap.
What, you may ask, does any of this have to do with me being a CAP TMP?
I think CAP is very smart in that they offer a large number of areas in which you can achieve qualifications. Each qualification also has incremental steps and a methodology for tracking your progress to help keep you motivated.
So, even though it will probably be another couple of years before I can qualify as a Mission Pilot or Cadet Orientation Pilot, there are still other areas that I am working on, and, I already have a few "tick marks" on my Mission Pilot SQTR, with more to come I'm sure.
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Posted by David at August 30, 2007 05:55 PM