I do NOT hold that peculiarly Canadian invention,
the FTU OC. Been there, done that. I would rather
have all my teeth removed without the benefit of
anaesthesia - less painful.
I give flight instruction on the Cessna 421B (pressurized
geared turbocharged piston twin) and the Aero Vodochody
L39 (pressurized single jet). Regardless of what you
might hear from various industry dolts, neither of them
are really very difficult to fly. It's just a matter of learning
the systems, and the normal procedures, and the emergency
procedures. It like mowing a lawn. Start at one end, work
your way through it, and after a little while you are done.
In case English (er, Canadian? American?) is not your first
language:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt
Edit -- the tricky thing about learning to fly certain aircraft
is that some particular tasks are somewhat technique-intensive
and some people find them difficult at first.
There is nothing particularly difficult about flying a 421. It is
a Cessna, after all. You might get a little busy on departure
and arrival - but each individual task is really not that difficult.
About the only difficult (?) task flying the L39 is speed control
on final. People like to saw away at the throttle, and that's
not good. Ask the guy that landed short of the runway at
Hamilton in a T-33 around that.
Some people find landing a tailwheel aircraft difficult, but
they just need a bit more practice, especially if it has a
faster touchdown speed. What really makes it interesting
is if the taildragger is blind forward in the landing attitude.
This really bothers some people.
Probably the hardest thing I've ever done in an aircraft
is negative G formation aerobatics close to the ground.
It's about 100x as difficult as anything else I've listed here.
