No, it's being called 'being lucky to grow up in an aviation family that enabled you to do such things, while not realizing the world has changed and what you previously did is simply unachievable for 99% of all people and pilots'.Colonel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:27 pm
Today's pilots are so infantile. They need someone to tell them what they need to learn,
and then they need someone to spoon-feed them a course like babies.
No one ever told me what I fucking needed to learn, and I was always self-taught.
Thinking about this, I taught myself:
1) tailwheel flying (I watched Dad, and he screamed at me for a little bit - I had no brakes on my side)
2) instrument rating (read a book, self-taught, corp pilot signed off the flight test)
3) my TCA ATPL and FAA ATP (read a book for each one)
4) aerobatics. Got some spin recovery training in California. Self-taught solo.
5) formation flying (never flew in same airplane as Dad. Self-taught solo)
6) formation aerobatics (asked everywhere for help, none given. Self-taught solo)
7) low altitude aerobatics. No one teaches this. No one. Self-taught solo
8) low altitude formation aerobatics. Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahah.
9) inverted (-ve G) formation & formation aerobatics. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Plus many, many weird self-checkouts on all sorts of bizarre types. Again, no dual, ever
which really pissed me off. Spent decades listening to war stories about the Beech 18
for example, and when one showed up at the airport, all those blowhard hero pilots
scattered like cockroaches and guess who had to teach themselves to fly a Beech18?
Figure out what you need to
learn - no one will tell you - and then teach yourself that material, because no one else
will.
This is called being an "adult".
For one, you're lucky you grew up in a country or continent that allows those things. The majority of pilots flying today, are not legally allowed to do the first 4 items on that list without -sometimes excessive- instruction. That's a legal requirement outside of North America.
Then you need to be able to find an airplane. Forget about renting, unless you want to spend another fortune on instructors and checkouts. Once you find a plane, insurance will likely throw another wrench in those plans.
It's not that new pilots need or want to be spoon fed a course, it's that 'your generation' mandated that new pilots now need to be spoon fed a course.