Don't extrapolate a contentious bb posting so far - its not valid.
Quick review:
I started off telling this student pilot that he should not get involved with radio nav until he has mastered basic nav. It gets you into all sorts of trouble and is best left to the end.
I did not and do not find credible this posting by Mr Rises:
[i]I also quite clearly recall that the final words to me from the Instructor #2 as I boarded the aircraft for the solo were along the lines of ‘look at that magnificent cumulonimbus cloud formation… did
know that that type of cloud has more energy in it than an atomic bomb’.
I don't believe an instructor would place his job and his liberty on the line to send Mr Rises solo in a dangerous CB environment.
I have encountered middle aged affluent businessmen learning to fly intending to buy their own large aircraft before. During that previous experience I found that they often embarked on this course of action with little research and then expected to be hand held and spoon fed all the way.
By not being aware that a QXC comes at the end of the syllabus and by not being aware that one generally studies for the PPL exams before or during training; Mr Rises fits into a model in my head based on previous experience.
Thats a side issue and not really germaine to the point of this argument which seems to be Mr Rises is hysterical at having his version of events disbelieved and a lot of other PPLs want to stick up for him as I am a big nasty flying instructor moderator who should be nicer to people.
Sounds like a pants school to me operating a pants syllabus.
Still, Mr Rises ignorance of how a normal PPL course is conducted leads me to place him in a certain category of student.
Cheers
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ps I could of course well be wrong and he's a splendid fellow who will make a superior aviator. I hope this is the case.
