CFIcare wrote:
You can bitch about it all day, unless the people in the industry are prepared to mentor newly licensed pilots then nothing is going to change.
But first these PPL/CPL's to be must WANT to learn about the engines and systems that they would soon be operating. It all comes down to the candidate's attitude. Luckily enough being originally a motor mechanic by trade helped me greatly to understand just what I was playing at when I wandered into the hangar to help the ame/lame's conduct maintainence.
I was originally exposed to HF in a marine environment (from a very young age), and in all honesty it is just another radio that requires just a couple more tweaks to get them clean and clear.
Perhaps we might start a thread describing (to those who might actually wish to learn something), the intracacies (spl?) of the common garden variety HF radio?
