There's nothing lowly about being a PPL, just because I have a few thousand hours and an ATPL, it doesn't mean I'm ace of the base myself.
I would be amazed if anyone ever went down the road of trying to recover money if an FI refused a sign off. It's a situation I've only had to deal with once and since I've performed hundreds of these flights it's not something I'm ever likely to lose sleep over!
Arguing over semantics like this on here is really pretty sad, especially as if you read the replies properly, you'll notice a lot of similarities. Making sweeping statements about someone based on a few lines on the internet is also very silly.
Basically, I do exactly what you are used to when it comes to briefing and talking to PPL's before this flight, but as per usual high horses have been climbed upon and in the typical pilot way the whole argument is one of transmitting your own ego instead of actually reading, digesting and understanding the point the other person is trying to put across in a few words of text.
I used to wonder why my wife would roll her eyes when I started blathering on to another pilot, especially about GA flying and the PPL world, but having been away from it for a while and then to return to this level of debate. I now realise why she got so bored.
Especially when you've been having the same roundabout argument for 8 years.
Do I really want to return to teaching if this is the sort of nonsense that awaits me again, or shall I just return to flying and getting paid by an airline?
