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Old 14th Mar 2014, 09:24
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But this is the point some instructor somewhere signed that guy off who failed to push the nose over and there are two many PPLs like that.
I am treating myself to a few hours in a Cirrus this year as I think its a great plane but reading the Cirrus chute pull accidents I was frankly horrified.
Chute pull for blocked pitot ???
Chute pull for stall off VS on autopilot
Chute pull for radio failure
Chute pull for failure to fly ILS and loss of control on miss
Chute pull for failed nav display

So many other loss of control pulls which should never have happened to a well taught competent pilot.

This is not a dig at instructors but a dig at the training syllabus which needs to put far more into handling and not playing with fancy displays.
There should be an advanced handling segment of the PPL taking 5 hrs chop 5 hrs out of the PPL to make way for it. not hard to find 5 hrs of less priority stuff in there.
If that is too hard have a five hours advanced handling rating to tack on the PPL

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