Originally Posted by
zanthrus
I am sure I heard this guy flying out of YSBK yesterday. Was definitely a C340 and he sounded a bit dodgy on the radio re his procedures to me. If so not really surprising result.
Not a direct shot at Zanthrus, but the focus seems to be on the wrong areas of pilot training these days. I’m a fan of competency based training when applied correctly, but I’m not sure it is.
The assessment of a pilots ability seems to be based on the quality of their radio calls and the number of bars on their epaulets. The fact a pilot can’t land in a crosswind, is petrified of stalls, taxies against the brakes, starts their aircraft 2m from hangar doors with the slipstream filling the hangar with dust and causing the aircraft in the hangar to collide is old fashioned stuff. Their multiple EFBs will protect them!