Originally Posted by
Pinky the pilot
No-one who has gone through all the theory courses and examinations required to gain even the basic CPL of the 1980s would come up with some of the rubbish I have read on this thread!
You'd think so, Pinky, but I've heard this sort of nonsense from 20000-hr veterans of the industry. And if you point out that absolutely nothing happened to the IAS when we were flying orbits in a 50 kt wind only 10 minutes earlier, you get met with either blank incomprehension or '"But that was different.."