The freshly minted CFI was grumpy because he interviewed at a local flight school but did not get the job. He said he was turned down because his logbook lacked diversity. He went on to rant about the flight school being “woke,” which sent a look around the FBO, and if we had been in a cartoon, a question mark would have appeared over my head. I knew the instructor he interviewed with—I’d flown with him a few times—and the school, and his statement didn’t make sense.
The next time I saw the interviewing instructor, I asked him about it. The interviewing CFI, who had more than 30 years in the industry, laughed at the applicant’s interpretation. “Lack of diversity” in the logbook meant the applicant, who had gone to an accelerated program, had only flown three models of aircraft to get his 300 hours: a Cessna 150 and 172—and his most recent time encompassed 15 hours in a Diamond DA42 TwinStar.
