Originally Posted by
comingup
Oh boy, "bluntly"! You moved the goal posts with the judgement thing since we were discussing skill, not judgement. Probably because you couldn't come up with any skills. A five thousand hour pilot does not necessarily have any better judgement than a two hundred hour pilot. The five thousand hour pilot has demonstrated it, though. A one thousand hour CFI that has spent the bulk of their time in the pattern teaching has just as good (probably better) skills than most five thousand hour pilots and, quite possibly, better judgement. It's not that complicated. The whole "real world" flying is better just because you left an airport, is mostly hot garbage. It's all real world.
Its funny, the FAA book has personality categories that it likes to put pilots into, like "Macho", "Anti-authority", "Invulnerability", but they seem to have left one out to cover the "Big-headedness" that a lot of young CFI's definitely get.
This reminds me of the stories I used to hear about the 1,000 hour CFI who gets his first job away from the pattern flying tours for Papillon, then goes to the cheif pilot to tell him how the operation "should" be run, lol.