well done the modorator
 

Well done for closing the "dont hire this man" thread ,an anonymous forum is not the place to start career ending gossip about some guy ,if flight safety is at risk then a report to the authoritys is the only proper action to take.

I'm not sure that the moderator did, more likely it was Solent 01

The original poster who starts a thread has the option of closing it or indeed removing the whole thing if he/she sees fit. If you are the person who starts a thread, if you select to delete your first post, the rest of the postings after your original mysteriously disapears as if by magic!

Well done Solent 001 then ?

Shurely shume mistake

Actually I was happy to let it run.

I thought it highly improbable that a flying school owner would bother to try to deduce who "Mr S" (if thats the real initial) was and then make any employment decisions based on that.

In which case no individuals career is being harmed. Therefore no problem.

Lets face it. There are some dangerously poor FI's who get the ticket and nearly kill themselves. Its an interesting topic professionally.

I know in my previous flying school the owner had finally decided never again to hire ex-509 grads as FI's after 1 left the runway and chopped up a cow and another parked the a/c on its nose after PIO'ing it to death...

Has no-one else thought about colleagues "get out of this business before you become a statistic"?

WWW

I did'nt close the thread, but in hindsight, I wish I had never started it.

It was unfair of me to have made the remarks that I did, there were factors involved that I did not take into account, and took for granted, which effected this guys flying on the said day, ie, flying from a grass strip with only 650m to play with, yes I know that is more than enough when you are used to it, but if you are use to flying from the hard stuff and with plenty of it, need I go on.........

I think it fitting that I retract my statements from the original thread, as to stamp down on anothers performance is as stated before, not on.

My original post should not have been an attack of anothers performance, but a statement of my own frustration of having no one to fly the students!!

Mr S, please accept my appolagees for causing you embarrassment, my post was totally off the mark and unfair, as stated above I fly with these conditions all the time and as such I take it for granted that they are the norm.....when in fact they are not.

[This message has been edited by Solent 01 (edited 18 May 2001).]

Guilty. I closed the thread because I felt it was starting to deteriorate and some of the comments were inappropriate and could be unnecessarily hurtful or harmful to others. Which as those of us who read the dunnunda forum know can lead to all kinds of trouble.

Thanks to all our regular contributers who make this a forum for real "pro's" so I hardly ever have to lock a thread!

Solent 01, I understand entirely the frustrations of management and the pressure on ones self when an employee fails to perform as expected. I was fortunate enough to be around a senior manager some years ago when he dismissed an employee for gross misconduct only to be criticised later at a tribunal, the employee being awarded damages. In the event, if the manager had remained calm If I need to discipline/dismiss anybody, I always send them home for the day (on full pay) and invite them to discuss the incident with me at 12 o clock the following day in my office. The next day however, things are often in perspective for both parties who both often take a different course of action than they would have done the previous day. In the event that the employee is eligible to take the matter to a tribunal, the manager cannot so easily be criticised for acting in the heat of the moment.

Anyway, grass strips are not for airplanes, they are for sheep! :)