Hello Staitman,
I have always appreciated the quality of training at FSI....even as a kid watching my old man go through it.
You seem to have completely missed my point in this thread. Its nothing to do with FSI's level of training just the missed opportunities on the aircraft. FSI is superb.
I was no keener than every other pilot to get to FSI but it was never going to happen through ESSO. So how can you say I "begged" to get a trip there? That's a huge exaggeration.
At any rate; since I have been a couple of times now I realise why you spent more of your time planning what rental car to hire, arguing the missus into business class, upgrading your hotel room (while trying figure out how to make ESSO pay for it all) than studying for the course.
Then again: after flying 10000hrs along the same parallel east to west, west to east, maybe I would be more interested in the excursion out of the "truman zone" than the job too....
