Scudrunners

Left Canada in 2015.  But it's nice to get emails from former students,
years later.

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I know taildraggers are nearly lost to history, but some people think
that the skills that you develop on them are useful.


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This note I'm particularly proud of.  Sure, it nice to stop people from
groundlooping taildraggers - if you like taildraggers - but a groundloop
is rarely fatal.

However, an EFATO in a twin almost always is fatal.  See 11 dead in
Hawaii, with yet another Vmc demo.  But not the guy I trained.

See, this is why TC says I am not eligible to hold an instructor rating.

You don't want people teaching stuff that stops airplanes from being
wrecked, and stop people dying.  TC won't allow that.

I never was a Good Canadianâ„¢.

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See, this is why TC says I am not eligible to hold an instructor rating.[/quote]

Same with me, there is no way I could ever get my instructor rating renewed, there are two reasons for this.

1... T.C. didn't like me suing them for unlawful actions against me and winning a judgement for $250,000 .

2..... There is no way I will get a lobotomy to be able to think their way.

I actually have a bunch of unsolicited emails like this:

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I guess like pictures, I should hide them, like a Good Canadianâ„¢?

I never was a Good Canadianâ„¢, I fear.  I embrace the rhetoric that
I am a shitty pilot, and worse instructor.

I am increasingly concerned with the direction our flight test standards are taking.  The requirements are being diluted due to the fact that the experience in the current cadre of instructors is shockingly low.

At the risk of sounding elitist ....

The problem isn't the experience level.  It's the level of [u]knowledge and skill[/u].

With good, intense instruction - with solid and focused pre- and post-flight
debriefs - pilots can become very skilled, very quickly, given reasonable aptitude
and decent motivation, of course.

Frankly, the PPL's I trained, at 100TT had more stick & rudder skill, for example,
than 1000 hr CPL's.  That's a fact.

I was taught by a fanged and incredibly demanding instructor.  I was probably
more demanding, again.  I sent student pilots solo in the L39, for crissakes.  How
many instructors in Canada did that?

But, compared to virtuous Canadians, I am a shitty pilot and instructor, because
I have no virtue to signal.

My family has only been flying for 102 years.  What would we know about aviation,
compared to @sshole Arlo and Rotten Ronnie, the Canadian Kings of Aviation?

Oh yeah.  Pictures really piss off the haters. 

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Another unsolicited email.  This one, from a retired AC pilot:

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Yeah, my family and I are really shitty pilots and instructors, by Canadian standards.

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=9810.msg28166#msg28166 date=1561692012].

The problem isn't the experience level.  It's the level of [u]knowledge and skill[/u].

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It's not limited to Instruction - it's happening in the Airline World.

All recent accidents involving large jets feature an inability of the crew to fly the aircraft - in some cases aircraft have been crashed that had zero technical problems.

I'm seeing it at my company too.

The only positive side to side to this is that people who know what they're doing and have a proven record are becoming increasingly valuable.

I guess.  From what I've seen, people don't particularly care if they crash or not.

Another picture for the haters:

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I rather like that one.

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=9810.msg28182#msg28182 date=1561866161]
I guess.  From what I've seen, people don't particularly care if they crash or not.

Another picture for the haters:

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I rather like that one.
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Am I reading that right, 11.4 G. The redline at 6 was not limiting?