As a product of the puppy mill why don't you teach me how to really fly doc
She's a good looking girl Doc, keep your mind on the job won't you?
I'm trying to increase my skill on my own... But it's sad... for the most part you are right.
Don't worry, we'll be increasing that skill level tenfold starting tomorrow at noon if the weather is better... Make sure you've read my tailwheel notes
TC has made it virtually impossible for a real "Flying Club" kind of atmosphere to even exist.
We are trying to create this sort of atmosphere here, like a proper English Pub, a Flying Club atmosphere is always welcome.
The next thing is this PC SMS business... We'll have to create a whole department and employ people to look after this thing. What is really important is proper training to make SMS redundant... Creating loads more paperwork that few can understand with dictums about this and that, trying to estimate risks etc... Perhaps we'll need people with Phd's in psychology, specialising in human failings... In fact the idea of an open propeller in front of our aircraft without an iron mesh guard around it should make what we do unlawful!
Where does it stop????
Government departments creating new empires that we somehow have to manage and pay for while all we want to do is teach people to fly.
Let's do what England did, export our flying training somewhere else and then give the people validations on their foreign licences rather than do them here...
What was so very wrong with the way it was done thirty years ago when people learned to fly without so much BS?
Really. I've had guys who really can't land in a cross wind.
When I learned to fly in the Cessna 150 it was crab and kick it straight as a rule, we learned the wing down sideslip method as an exercise....
All these airline hopefuls here who are only taught the wing down method are in for a shock when they break out at minimums, wings level and in a crab on the ILS... Then there's the problem of having pods that smack the ground if you try to do what you've been taught in a high wing Cessna in Canada.
I teach both methods and the student can make his/her own choice depending on the circumstance.
Last night in the Pub there were two airline pilots, both with good stick and rudder skills, one flying 737s the other 747s, and yes the lack of such skills was foremost in their discussion... So many near misses due to the pilot failing to recognise when the autopilot did something wrong... Even the classic go around with nobody flying the aircraft, and the autopilot was off line! Reminds me of teaching in the Tiger Moth, we started an early climbing turn to the left so I asked the chap in the back through the indecent intercom what he was doing.... He thought I had control. There's a bit of a difference between a free flight Tiger Moth and a free flight 7*7 with a load of screaming passengers!
