I have a better idea. Let's take a look at the ideas and ways of all the posters.
The original poster had a fair question. He was truly puzzled why someone would encourage something that even his level of piloting skills and knowledge indicated were WRONG>
There were some suspicious things that my vast experience picked up on and I mentioned it in a semi humorous way to make sure IT STUCK in the original poster's mind.
And I get attacked. Well I can take it. And the other posters are right...age and experience don't make you a better pilot than someone else. But when you are a better pilot than someone else and you also have age and experience on your side that is quite a benefit . I'm sure even German and British pilots have seen the poster with the biplane in the tree speaking of bold pilots and old pilots and that there aren't any old bold pilots.
Back in prehistoric times I had warned a fine student, someone who spent time and money getting to be a fine pilot...someone who had pulled himself up from poverty to become a wealthy man how to stay safe. I warned him that some pilots would enter an uncontrolled airport traffic pattern (yes pattern, not circuit) in such a way as to increase the possibility of mid air collision. I also warned him about stall recovery when avoiding a collision.
Two weeks later he encountered someone entering the pattern incorrectly at a high elevation airport. Head on collision course on base leg, he correctly on left base, the intruder incorrectly on right base. He maneuvered and avoided collision and while intensely maneuvering he approached a stall but recovered safely and landed.
I don't play around when I fly. and when I hear stupid things I call em like I see em...even if they are in other countries.
and lets talk about the peanut gallery...sloppy joe and stevelup...yeah they love to talk. Oh imagine a flight instructor not in it for the money (puhleaze)I know flight instructors are not well paid, but any flight instructor who takes a shortcut is not teaching a student how to be safe and that costs more money in the long run.
and yes I'm an American. Remember us? We invented the airplane.
I don't like you stevelup...and I sure don't respect you and the same for sloppyjoe. And I do know all about CRM and making sure a F/O can speak to me about anything of concern to make the flight safer.
So many times people make up stuff to cover their own inadequate performance as a pilot. They comment as if I am someone they have actually flown with. But of course we never will fly together. My airline only hires very experienced pilots, not the cadet boys of the european squadrons.
We hire people who can fly and think, not just push buttons.
And dear funfly, yes I know all about paradiddles, flams, ratamacues, lesson no. 25's (which the brits call the rat-a -tap). But I disagree with you about peaceful coexistence.
The likes of stevelup and sloppyjoe are just fooling themselves. They are trying to make up for failures by ''talking big''.
I admire the brits for inventing radar, and the lion's share of the jet engine . And especially for the few!
And the germans are damn smart, swept wings, and so much more.
But when it comes to flying, they might learn a bit more from us, should I say U.S.?