Originally Posted by
overun
Ghengis, forgive me.
l believe that certain things should be remembered. The basics.
The ones who had difficulty remembering in times of stress during instruction were advised to save their money, at least by me.
You instruct on an aircraft that you don`t know intimately ?
Are you charging them ?
I imagine that most instructors occasionally have to teach on aeroplanes they've only got 100 or so hours on and haven't got access to the design drawings of. Embarrassing, but that's how it is, everybody's time is limited, and manufacturers can be very reluctant to let you have enough information to know an aeroplane intimately. I've only ever gone into that much detail on maybe 30 types, of the 97 in my logbook - so am presumably very limited compared to yourself?
And I did not say that I don't know the aeroplane, I said that I hadn't flown it for a few months and so needed to work harder at keeping the aeroplane absolutely in balance. It doesn't mean I failed or don't know the aeroplane - just that my feet got lazy from mostly flying aeroplanes less than 50 years old over the summer whilst I was busy writing mod applications to keep a 64 year old aeroplane, for which we can no longer get original parts, flying.
And no, I don't charge members of my syndicate for instruction on an aeroplane that I'm the only current instructor on in Europe, and which I mostly fly for fun. My choice, I charge elsewhere on other aeroplanes that I don't have a personal interest in.
So, you make sure you've been through all of the design drawings, maintenance manuals and flight test reports, and have a couple of hundred hours on every type you teach on presumably? Very admirable, I really wish I could.
(Okay, I could have just said "don't be an arsehole", but if you are going to be such a self-rightous prat, you deserve a little more vitriol).
G