Taking responsibility for the flying

[mad_jock]

If you check again the quote was to do with converting someone onto a new type in the SEP class.

Hence the discussion about who is best to do such conversions.

[Genghis the Engineer]

Originally Posted by mad_jock

If you check again the quote was to do with converting someone onto a new type in the SEP class.

Hence the discussion about who is best to do such conversions.

Although, I can see some sense in what Darkroomsource is saying. There is a general approach (in my experience anyhow) within British light civil aviation that if you are going to fly a new aircraft type, you turn up, get a short briefing, fly the aeroplane with the instructor / checkee, then take it from there.

Yet I don't think that this exists anywhere else. If you are converting to a jet, you can expect a week or more in the classroom these days before you get to go anywhere near the aeroplane (or increasingly, simulator). In FAA land a short quiz based upon the POH is fairly normal before flying an aircraft for the first time, whilst the military in the UK certainly expects a pilot do do some considerable study before getting into a new type.

Is there perhaps a bit of a cultural error in the UK, that I'm just seeing one symptom of?

G

[mad_jock]

That wasn't the way I read it.

What the poster says for a check out I agree with.

But flying a new type its slightly different in that the instructor is driving the course content. The content will depend on the experence of the student and also if they have flown a similar type before. It maybe the case that the exercises will be driven by the student for example if the student is an instructor themselves.

Interesting though.