Early in my aviation career, the CFI of a flying school I worked for said of his ex. Twin Rating course students,
'Most of them would crash if they had an engine failure on takeoff the next day'.
When I asked him to expand on that, he added,
'Well, what can you do in six hours'.
I think that many flying courses are completed with the same attitude demonstrated by my erstwhile Boss, in the form of a fixed number of hours, and the standard of many tailwheel courses would be a lot higher if the student had to do six
solo takeoffs and full stop landings in the school aircraft at the end.
Whoever wrote the training requirements for a Night Rating all those years ago was a wise owl.
MJ
