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Old 26th May 2008, 15:35
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18greens
 
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'Don't feel pressured in flying in marginal conditions when Mr Experienced is flying'

Ha I remember this one.

I patiently explained to blogs the wx was not good enough and the lesson would not be educational (3k viz, no horizon, lesson 6). I then watch mr experience walk out of the door to do the same lesson with his blogs. We ponder the situation and I said if you fancy it lets try. Anyway I was right, it was rubbish and blogs learned what a bad weather circuit looked like. I challenged Mr Experience and asked him why he went up in such patently uneducational weather. He said he knew it was going to be rubbish but his student was insistent they flew thinking Mr Experience was being lazy not wanting to fly on this day and he wanted to teach him a lesson. So the student learned a lesson and I did too.

Good luck with the instructing, its fantastic.
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