Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
Decision making techniques like the ones mentioned are indeed not in the PPL syllabus, but sometimes instructors do manage to sneak them in there. If this had been someone I knew (club member, ex-student) I would probably have congratulated him first, after all everyone on board lived to tell tweet/blog about it, then I would have sat down and asked him "looking back on it, what would you have done differently?"
Perhaps the answer to that would be "maybe I should have checked the door properly before I took off"!!