Originally Posted by JammedStab
Most ground schools are computer based training. After having been on 9 turbine types I find that every one of the ground schools whether with an instructor or CBT leaves one with many questions if they are the questioning type.
Many pilots probably just accept not knowing smaller details and the more modern types frequently exclude a lot of system detail and can get along just fine like that.
Sometimes a question gets asked and the answer was there in the manual but other interesting information gets posted on the thread which may or may not be relevant. Subsequently, one can quickly do a google seach with PPRuNe and subject matter and find several threads with good information.
Unfortunately, some responses(without specifying any threads) come from posters that basically question a persons abilities because of the initial question was asked. I find those people to themselves have a questionable personality in terms of whether they themselves should be flying while the people starting the posts to likely be the kind of pilot you want to fly with because they are furthering their knowledge.
This is a forum for technical questions. If you don't like it because sometimes the subject should be well known then go somewhere else. You won't be missed.
It has nothing to do with one's abilities, and I, for one, have no problem with someone who wants to get into the finer, more advanced details of systems or procedures. However, when someone who claims to have been flying his aircraft for over a year apparently (among other things):
1. Doesn't know how to interpret F/D commands;
2. Doesn't know how to set the pressurization panel;
3. Doesn't know what speed stability is (which is a concept not dependent on a particular aircraft type);
4. Doesn't know how the anti-ice system operates;
Can I be blamed for maybe not entirely buying such a person's story?
Or when another someone gets people who don't buy their story banned (twice now), can I be blamed for thinking said someone is a fraud, especially when they:
1. One week are flying a 737NG into Anchorage and are all up in arms about how the FMS is 0.0025 degree different from the ILS G/S;
2. The very next week are flying a 747-400 out of China and are all sorts of hung up about what a "high runup" is while not being sure what TOGA switches do.
3. The week after that they're operating some PW100-powered something or other?
Feel free to get me banned a third time, you'll just prove me right (again).