Originally Posted by
high spirits
Actually, I remember my first QFI back in the early 90s. Pretty poor quality low average delivery. A lot of ‘I can do it, why can’t you?’. His solution even involved the odd cuff round the head. Then again, he was a Victor Tanker co pilot, so not a lot upstairs.
Pretty crass, indeed offensive, statement!
I was once a Victor tanker co pilot, 52 years and 15,000 hours ago, ( and later a standards QFI) later an airline training captain, and found SOME of the former fast jet types b....y hard work to get up to scratch. Most were first class, but some were arrogant beyond belief, arrogance not matched by their rather meagre ability to be a member of an airliner crew.
Many of us started as V force copilots, and developed from there .
.......and how would YOU know, since you trained in the 90s, that todays QFIs are better than , say, those on my days of the 60s and 70s, As the standards QFI. I flew with quite a few, ALL knew their jobs well., certainly up to CFS standards, no cuffs around the ear involved.
So, perhaps its unwise to generalise !