Hours to PPL
Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 1:20 am
This topic keeps coming up, year after year.
Students want to save $$$ and do their licence
in the legal minimums. People like to point out
that's it's impossible these days, but then stop
talking when people mention the Air Cadets,
who year after year do PPL's in the minimum
flight times.
People like to lecture students endlessly about
what they should do differently during their
training.
I have to laugh.
The problem isn't the students. It's the instructor.
Do you think the Air Cadets all express their artistic
creativity and snowflake individuality during their
PPL flight training, to perform well?
Of course not. They do what they are fucking told.
You want to do your PPL in minimum hours? Ask
your instructor for his last 10 student to PPL's
hours. And, I bet they will suck, because your
instructor sucks.
He can't help it. His instructor sucked, too.
Civilian flight instruction is really crappy, because
[b]no one cares[/b].
That's why you're going to take 80 hours to your
PPL - your flight instruction is going to suck, and
you won't know it until it's too late.
No different than hiring any other contractor.
First comes the test, then comes the lesson.
It took me 25 years to become a really good flight
instructor. If you actually did what I told you to do,
you would progress very quickly to a very high level
of proficiency.
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But no one cared, so I gave up and went back
to writing software. Pays a lot better, and TC
can go fuck themselves.
NB I'm a slow learner. I used to think that TC
was about aviation, and that's the farthest thing
from the truth. Their name is an oxymoron. They
don't give a shit about aviation, and sure don't
know anything about it, either. Politics, promotion
and pension is what TC, like any other government
department, is all about. The three P's.
Students want to save $$$ and do their licence
in the legal minimums. People like to point out
that's it's impossible these days, but then stop
talking when people mention the Air Cadets,
who year after year do PPL's in the minimum
flight times.
People like to lecture students endlessly about
what they should do differently during their
training.
I have to laugh.
The problem isn't the students. It's the instructor.
Do you think the Air Cadets all express their artistic
creativity and snowflake individuality during their
PPL flight training, to perform well?
Of course not. They do what they are fucking told.
You want to do your PPL in minimum hours? Ask
your instructor for his last 10 student to PPL's
hours. And, I bet they will suck, because your
instructor sucks.
He can't help it. His instructor sucked, too.
Civilian flight instruction is really crappy, because
[b]no one cares[/b].
That's why you're going to take 80 hours to your
PPL - your flight instruction is going to suck, and
you won't know it until it's too late.
No different than hiring any other contractor.
First comes the test, then comes the lesson.
It took me 25 years to become a really good flight
instructor. If you actually did what I told you to do,
you would progress very quickly to a very high level
of proficiency.
[img width=500 height=375][/img]
[img width=500 height=332][/img]
But no one cared, so I gave up and went back
to writing software. Pays a lot better, and TC
can go fuck themselves.
NB I'm a slow learner. I used to think that TC
was about aviation, and that's the farthest thing
from the truth. Their name is an oxymoron. They
don't give a shit about aviation, and sure don't
know anything about it, either. Politics, promotion
and pension is what TC, like any other government
department, is all about. The three P's.