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Old 28th Dec 2022, 22:03
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Trojan1981
 
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No disrespect to anyone involved, but many know the operator. We know the type and the pilot was trained at a place where I briefly worked in a relevant role, though not when this pilot was there. That said I won't post anything.

I don't know if this is related but one thing that really surprised me, at this and other schools, was the general lack of weather awareness among instructors. Most were very surprised when it was suggested that, just because they were IFR didn't mean they should go cloud punching. Most had not considered the concept of embedded TS (most aircraft did not have weather radars) nor really considered the possibility of turb leading to in-flight break-up. There was a plethora of investigation reports to demonstrate the point.

Mentoring of instructors is just as important as mentoring junior line pilots.


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