Originally Posted by
Miserlou
"I'm good enough and experienced enough that I can fly anything"
You are absolutely right, Gregpend, it is arrogant. Aren't we all?
But seriously, your attitude when climbing in should be "I can fly 'this' aeroplane." If it isn't, you really don't have any business being there.
Before condemning this, check it in the negative sense. You bowl up to fly a new type and kick off with, "Hi. I don't think I'm good enough to fly your aeroplane!" (Excuse the mixed metaphors.)
If that is the level of your confidence, how will you deal with a problem?
The Scott Crossfield is example is v. poor. Are you suggesting that he wasn't clever enough to understand what it said in the book and should have had some one read it to him?
Wow Miserlou, it seems everybody who disagrees with your point of view always quotes bad examples....