just finished reading catch 22 so i will give you this one to ponder on.
when your reading this just remember the post someone made about the fact that i havnt instructed for 14 years and only instructors should make comments about teaching!
i took over a position at a well known flying school were the cfi was sacked for being totally incompetent. now here was a man who had been flying for years with around 15,000 hours but without a shadow of doubt was the worst instructor ( and i have come across many in 8 different schools) i have ever heard of, or come across.
he never did any form of preflight check, and carried around 10 cans of oil, loose in the back of the aircraft.(c150). he instructed down to 200 ft cloud bases in any vis he could get away with. the fire service ran a book from engine start from time to airbourne, the record being 2 minutes as he never did any mag checks etc. he 'pencilled' engine log books so that a/c magically always had done 50 hours the evening before his day off and were put on check the next day.
average time to ppl was around 80 hours for those who stuck it out, they did about 20 hours before he let them fly!
he took his case to the industrial tribunal and this is the best part. here are a part of two statements read out by two different students in court.
1. after 23 flying lessons i found out that the aircraft was fitted with flaps. i found this out beacuse another student who flew with a different instructor told me about them.
2. after 29 lessons i said to my instructor" what speed should i fly the approach at. He replied " what speed do you back your car into your garage" I do not know, i just gauge it" replied the student. "well, theres your answer", replied the instructor.
so there you have it gentlemen, your all wrong, you dont need to know any speeds to fly an a/c, you just point it. please dont argue with this because this man had a valid instructors rating and as such was an expert in these matters and had more experience than many of you have.
ps not all asi's have colour coding
Last edited by whatunion; 14th June 2004 at 19:45.