At the budding CFII stage of my career I was 26 years old as opposed to Tim McKellar’s age of 22. Even at 26 I could not have been characterized as “wisened by age” anymore than Tim McKellar could have been at the age of 22. And of course back in my early days the term “social media” was not even part of our lexicon, let alone something we used on a daily, or worse yet hour by hour basis.
But even at the age of 26 first priority was always to land back at RVS alive along with an unharmed live student. My second priority was hopefully to impart to my students as much of my limited knowledge as I could while also providing to them a safe learning experience. My mind, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my feet, well, my entire being were one hundred percent engaged to that end.
As immature a 26 year old as I was, I can’t imagine having engaged myself in social media during a live flight lesson of any kind, let alone on a night cross-country flight in the vicinity of weather. To this day I don’t have a Facebook account.