Ok thanks for the informative replies. My flying club has most models of 172 and I have two of the models POHs. Those don't have the flaps issue. I'm a little confused with some of your responses saying to read the POH and look it up on google... Yea I can easily wait until later in the week when I...

Hello, Hello, Cat Driver, Padre, ODF, CS etc, you guys won ! I get it ! You collectively obviously don't think I have anything to offer this forum and the level of vitriol (eg pushing chickenshit, I must be failed Class 4, reading this shit makes me get on my knees that I don't own a flight school a...

I have been a lurker on this forum for awhile and thought I would jump in and contribute......silly me. I guess if you don't teach formation aerobatics, fly a pre WW2 nearly extinct flying boat or are a heavy airline Capt flying in international operations you are not worthy of posting on the "fligh...

The AIM and other TC documents don't say that you can't or even should not read back any part of a VFR clearance or instruction, only that it is permitted to reply with only your 3 letter call sign for VFR flight. For IFR flight readbacks are required. I find that virtually all 705 operators read ba...

> Don't respond to everything ATC tells you if VFR (callsign only sometimes). Always read back an altimeter setting and of course, callsign last. Overall be smart and efficient on the radio. Please feel free to flame away and offer your opinions as I am open to different thoughts. I get my students...

Well Big Pistons Forever seemed to think you outed him based on the post (which I think was removed) he made just before he checked out of Avcanada. In that post he said you used a real name. Is that not a true statement ?

There appears to be hardly any actual flight instructors who post on the "Flight Training" forum, I wonder why Maybe it is because regardless of what we post there will always be someone who knows better but they are not secure enough to come out from behind the security of anonymity? You were the ...

Well I fly out of a pretty busy airport and the amount of F*uck ups caused by poor communications with ATC is rather disheartening. You have to talk on the radio and it is just as easy and doesn't take anymore time to teach pilots how to do it do right. I am hardly suggesting that is the biggest pro...

The other thread on radios seems to have hit Vne and exploded but the topic does hit a bit of a personal nerve because in general it is an area that IMO FTU's are not doing particularly well at, especially at the ab initio level The other thread dealt with a particularly narrow point of questioning,...

There appears to be hardly any actual flight instructors who post on the "Flight Training" forum, I wonder why

This is pretty much the European model now. There are a couple of large schools with formal agreements with the airlines. When the airlines hire they go exclusively to the pool of completed candidates from the school they have a commercial agreement with. The airlines love it because they get a lot ...

BTW don't bother replying as I have placed "Ahramin" on my ignore list, just like the other well known jerks on avcanada You come on Avcanada and have the audacity to call long time members jerks. That tells us a whole lot about you. We have run into your type quite often in the airline cockpit and...

BTW don't bother replying as I have placed "Ahramin" on my ignore list, just like the other well known jerks on avcanada. Ahramin flys heavy jets and has probably forgot more than you know, we are close friends and you are a disgrace to aviation...... Quite frankly people like you are going to comp...

Yes. From para 5.9 of the COM section of the AIM. Tower: FOXTROT VICTOR LIMA CHARLIE, CONFIRM YOU ARE AT FIVE THOUSAND. Pilot: FOXTROT VICTOR LIMA CHARLIE, AFFIRMATIVE. Here is a perfect example of what not to do. Standard phraseology is standard phraseology and it is what all pilots should be usin...

Some days I have just got to shake my head at the stupidity that keeps creeping into the Training Forum, a ten page thread on Vx, another 10 pages on AoA, and now 2 pages (so far) on airspeed. Trey, Cat and CS all gave perfect answers on page 1 of this thread but people still don't get it. I have t...

ahramim

Have you ever in Canadian airspace placed your call sign at the end of a transmission ?

It takes 50 years of experience and 30 K hours to learn never to commit yourself to an answer sufficiently specific for someone else to be able to find fault. Ideally everyone on avcanada should be reading the answer in order to learn from it, not find fault with it. Still saying you would tell the...

there are plenty of extremely experienced pilots who are terrible teachers I had no idea you were acquainted with my father! He's a superb stick (F-86, F-104, Pitts) but a typical military flight instructor. You know. Horrible. I like telling this story. It's the early 1970's and I'm 10 years old, ...

I have already given my answer: 120 kts for an Arrow and 100 kts for a C 172 and the reasons why. So how about contributing your answer ? I have already explained I have never given any IFR instruction in a single engine airplane. So what weight would my comments carry if I have never done it? The ...

Like everything else in life there is an imperfect relationship between what something costs and what it is worth. The issue IMO is more fundamental. First the instructor must be able to teach. This sounds obvious but there are plenty of extremely experienced pilots who are terrible teachers. What m...

Maybe I should have been more specific: suppose you've a new instrument flight student, and this is his or her first ILS, dual, with you as the instructor. You're in a 172, or a 182, or an Arrow, or something similar. Sorry I really should have stayed out of this discussion for the simple reason I ...

This boils down to, are we teaching pilots how to pass the IRFT or how to fly IFR In the real world ? So the teaching industry teaches pilots to pass a flight test.....but it is not teaching for the real world of IFR flying......have I got this right? So who teaches them how to fly in the real worl...

I am now going to tell my students to acknowledge the call from ATC "ABC cleared for takeoff runway 18 " with the response "cleared for departure 18 ABC". "Departure" is a ICAO recognized term, is unambiguous, and avoids you saying "takeoff". ICAO standard is to say "Cleared for takeoff". Departure...

This boils down to, are we teaching pilots how to pass the IRFT or how to fly IFR In the real world ? 55 to 65 is the range of C 172 approach speeds. To me it is simply ridiculous to fly the ILS at these speeds. 100 kts will not plug up the ILS too badly and if the student can't maintain the Loc/GS ...

Okay, here's a scenario for Class I. I am going to make an assumption here...You're ready for departure and call in your usual way, "ABC at Alpha Ready" What do you do when you land, exit the runway, complete your post landing checks, and switch to ground frequency? Do you say "ABC at Alpha Ready"?...