Cheap American PPL's A Waste Of Money?
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examiners
The corrupt examiners may end up being more expensive,so lets not feed people like DIRTY BOB,remember that many FAA employees become DE,before during and after the test if something does not look right it is your word against his.The main factor in passing a checkride is the connection between the sign off guy\gal school to the examiner,your performance is secondary.On a written exam you are guaranteed equal condintions,not on a checkride!
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IRV N FLAPS
IRV,I just read your msg and I dont get it why do you care when and if a pilot uses flaps!Why cant you take it as his own decision?Any pilot has the right to fly without touching the flaps!I would like to see your face when a skilled pilot dumps the flaps on a very short field landing.
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The reason for met code is in the “olden days” teleprinters were very slow so a way of reducing the amount of data sent was devised. Now however with high-speed data links the reason for the code is defunct.
Won’t stop it from staying in the system though. Far too many Luddites in aviation. At least on the East Side of the pond
just look at most peoples attitude to GPS.
How pedantic can you get, the bit about flaps?
I was checked out once for flying at another club in the south of England. The instructor asked me to demonstrate a particular manoeuvre, vortex ring recovery. I did this, as was taught to me by a 38,000hr pilot and examiner. The instructor said no no no no you do it this way. His idea of the manoeuvre was a more sedate and quite frankly more dangerous recovery. It would never have time to work in the real world. For those not familiar with helicopters this situation, if you get into it, is almost always close to the ground. A bit like stalling on short final. He is teaching this to students. Shocking.
Works both ways.
Won’t stop it from staying in the system though. Far too many Luddites in aviation. At least on the East Side of the pond
just look at most peoples attitude to GPS.How pedantic can you get, the bit about flaps?
I was checked out once for flying at another club in the south of England. The instructor asked me to demonstrate a particular manoeuvre, vortex ring recovery. I did this, as was taught to me by a 38,000hr pilot and examiner. The instructor said no no no no you do it this way. His idea of the manoeuvre was a more sedate and quite frankly more dangerous recovery. It would never have time to work in the real world. For those not familiar with helicopters this situation, if you get into it, is almost always close to the ground. A bit like stalling on short final. He is teaching this to students. Shocking.
Works both ways.
