
Sure thing, let's go whenever the weather permits. I'll be more than happy to.
Alex
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,So how do I know when the landing was bad? It is only when somebody experienced it telling you what was going on, and what could be done differently.
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While not as experienced as ., I'll gladly go up with you in it too. George is happy with it.
JBL
Agree 100%.....- Of that 25% there are about 10% who have "it," the natural talent on the controls combined with the head on the shoulders to make the standard.
Met a guy like that last month. A better stick than I amabout half of those ten pilots are also excellent mechanics and they are never out of work
If you can damage the gear without setting off the ELT you must have some sort of marketable skill.trey wrote:According to some here, if you do not set off the ELT, no one sees you taxi back on to the runway, and you can walk far enough away from the plane to allow plausible denial to the gear damage the landing was pretty much OK
Wait, wut tha? ~grumble~Colonel Sanders wrote:Owner paid extremely
large bucks for the last annual. But the engine had been barking
for a couple years. He popped open the left mag, parts fell out.
Also, the tailwheel was shimmying. Very expensive shop claimed
to have rebuilt it. But the parts in it were at least as old as I am.
I thought I was the only one here that believed that!- As with almost any other profession, a large majority of pilots are not really cut out for flying.
I like this answer. The landing will be much better if the pilot stops flying when the plane stops moving, and not before. A pilot planning to fly the plane all the way through to a stop, will fly it better the whole time.The other factor I've noticed is the 'give up' factor. Rather than maintaining directional control, wings level or banked into the appropriate cross wind, holding the flare, and holding the nose wheel up (or the tail wheel down) through the ground roll... they simply say CLOSE ENOUGH and plunk the airplane down... or wheelbarrow or porpoise as they force it to stay on the ground.. and don't use the rudder or aileron until they feel they need it (or in the case of a tailwheel airplane... too late)
no. Only the ones who, like you, think that the majority of pilots aren't up to the task. I'd like to hear from them what practical steps they've taken to prevent these people following their dreams, too. Otherwise it's just so much bullshit.That must mean that every instructor out there has recommended students they didn't think were cut out for the task.
Seriously? A short, quiet conversation wouldn't have done it?I actually wrote up a 2 or 3 page report on one student who I thought shouldn't be trained because he was not cut out for it and handed that to my boss.
Where do you even come up with this logic?!It does, however, mean that every other instructor out there has recommended students that YOU don't think are cut out for the task.
I see. if you hadn't done it someone else would, so that's ok. Thats up there with "I was only following orders" in history's book of lame excuses.dr.aero wrote:
That does not mean that I didn't train people who I thought weren't cut out for it and it doesn't mean that someone else didn't recommend them for a higher license such as a CPL, where I would not have done so.
Sigh.dr.aero wrote:photofly...
Where do you even come up with this logic?!It does, however, mean that every other instructor out there has recommended students that YOU don't think are cut out for the task.
i'm not attacking either you or him; just your hypocrisy, if you really believe it to be true and have done as little to remedy it as you say you have.Why didn't you start attacking sky's the limit? - He was the first one to say it.
Does that make it clearer?It does, however, mean that every other instructor out there has recommended students that YOU don't think are cut out for the task.
How nice of you! But for me you decide to go full-force personal attack without even asking for clarification.I'll give him the opportunity to say how many ill-suited students he turned away, first, before commenting further.
That's not even close. That would be applicable if I was told by my boss to recommend a student who I thought wasn't competent and I did so.Thats up there with "I was only following orders" in history's book of lame excuses.