I'll leave the insult throwing to you. It's always good to make up your mind on someone based on a single subject typed into an internet bulletin board...............As for me not being an FI. In a way you are right, as the CAA have deemed my medical fitness suspect. Something to do with chemotherapy not being a great boon to flight safety, but 10 years of being an FI and listening to the same old nonsense about things like this tends to get a bit wearing. I've had this very debate on Pprune on a regular basis since 2000.
It is a bit like herding cats. Your ego won't let you back down and nor will mine or the simple fact that I know I'm right! Whatever you write here, won't change anything. I've been doing this for years and I've never had a complaint about how I conduct training or checks and judging by the fact our club grew from one aircraft 4 years ago and now has hundreds of happy members, 2 bases and no-one has croaked it yet, then we must have done something right.
I would suggest that you actually read what I've written rather than just blasting through it ready to make a barb.
Bose, I don't remember ever saying I did have the "power of life or death" or somesuch other melodramatic nonsense. Our role is impart knowledge to students and others who want our services. That's what we get paid for. It just happens that occasionally something we do or say might stop someone doing something stupid.
I've had a few people come up to me and tell me that it was something that I told them that stopped them doing something that could have had dire consequences. If something I've done has helped to keep our members as safe as possible, then great. I want them to know everything I do and I often find myself learning as much from them as they do from me, which then helps the next person.
That is why I enjoy instructing as much as actually flying myself. It isn't arrogance to try and do it to the best of your abilities and if trying to set an acceptable standard and then enforcing it is arrogant, then fine tar me with that brush. However, you'll have to do the same to every FI I've ever met or worked with. Well, any of the decent ones anyway.
Nice to know you are helping to devalue our profession by working for free though. That really helps those who are trying to make a living out of teaching.
Last edited by Say again s l o w l y; 25th June 2008 at 11:19.