First job depend on flight school?

[totalreaction]

Thanks for all the replies, food for thought and much appreciated.
TR

[A37575]

short field takeoff/landings

The POH for most GA types includes normal take-off and landing performance charts published by the manufacturer. They are usually entitled Short Field charts. Same with trainers used at flying schools. All short field charts. There should be no need to be specifically trained in short field operations by charter operators because candidates are already competent (or should be) since PPL training. Or is this too optimistic?

[pilotchute]

I know a particular school that didn't allow students to land at grass/dirt strips when doing solo navs or fly aways.

That's how you prepare students for the real world!

[JustJoinedToSearch]

You'd hate to see someone end up flying it into the ground VFR when the weather turns trying to push on to a sealed runway because they thought they 'couldn't' land at any number of safe dirt/grass strips.

[bankrunner]

So apparently the best place to do your first solo landing on a dirt strip is on a hot windy day in a 206 in the top end with paying passengers on board?

[Captain Nomad]

In the famous catch-all phrase of this day and age of individualistic thinking which I am sick of hearing - "NOT MY PROBLEM!"

Think about it, the flying school does not really have to care if a student is prepared for that...

[Pinky the pilot]

Landing on a paved runway??? Loooxury!

Done more landings on dirt or grass strips than paved. Even landed on PSP strips.

Think about it, the flying school does not really have to care if a student is prepared for that...

Exactly Captain Nomad. And IMHO any flying school having that sort of attitude should be shunned and avoided at all costs!

[poonpossum]

Such flying schools should also be named and shamed in a setting just like this, to give them accountability for their poor training practices. Unfortunately no one here has the balls to actually call any school out, but it's fine to simultaneously complain about the constant demise in Australian training standards, perhaps justifying it with that old adage... "Not my problem

[4Greens]

If you learn on a Tiger Moth as I did, its easier to land on grass as the tail skid works.