Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
After the flight I took this up with our chief FI and we ended up letting this FI loose with a 'max 5kt x-wind' limitation. This was very much an internal limitation, said FI had all the paperwork to say that he was qualified to operate SEP types up to the stated limits. And as it was a bit of an internal issue anyway, I am not sure if said limitation was ever applied.
Can you give an example of an SEP that has stated cross wind limits. All the SEP I have flown have had a maximum demonstrated cross wind and that is not a limit.
As to FI standards and PPL performance - I was recently asked to give a new PPL his first flight review. It was obvious he had no idea what the rudder was for and the yawing on approach was very uncomfortable. It turned out that his instructors, he had several, had never told him about adverse yaw or the need to use rudder with aileron.
When I gave someone initial flight instruction the first lesson was primary and secondary effects of controls. When did that go out of favor?