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y hell www! Telling tales now? I've no idea how rich Pheonix is, but haven't we all dreamed about owning our own plane?
Compairing Pheonix to your former student, is unhelpful, and unfair. You don't know enough about him/her to make that call. As Whirly said earlier, you should take the story at face value, as if it's true, he needs advise. If it's not, then it's his loss. I for one, believe the jist of the story.
Phoenix Rises - stop being precious. I never called you a liar.
The fact remains that I, personally, DO NOT BELIEVE that your FI sent you off on an early solo navex whilst cheerfully admiring the huge local CB's. Its not credible.
Well, given the above I don't see how anyone could read it as anything other than calling Pheonix a liar.
We've just had a nice girly hair pulling fest here ourselves. Try not to turn these two events into a trend line...
I dare say that it's your comments that have dragged this thread down. And since almost all comments of other users on your post, have been negative, I would think that I'm not alone in believing that.
You did give Phoenix some good advise, in telling him/her to sit down with an instructor (s)he trusts, and to look at another school. Couldn't you have left it at that, and left a benifical post, rather than dragging this whole thread down?
Speaking as someone who is generally a confident person, who once had his flying confidence ruined by one instructor (out of about 10 very good ones), I'm glad I didn't learn to fly with someone with an attitude like yours. I'm sure I'd have given up at the first hurdle.
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