Scudrunners

[quote]What we need in my opinion is greater and real oversight of flight training. Start with more oversight of DPES, and clean out a substantial amount of TC's flight training department. Part of this I feel would be that the industry should take a direct hand in flight training and also share some of the accountability.[/quote]

That is priority number one.

Some of the inspectors we had / have in this region should be stripped of their pilots licenses and barred from ever collecting another cent from the tax payers of Canada....including their pensions.

Even the Mafia would not put up with them.

[quote] I have more time instructing than he has total[/quote]

Do you want a cookie?  - nobody here cares...

Dont you and big pistons have some posting to do in the other forum?

Bring it on,, however Im not sure if you realize the company kept by this forum  :)


I will reiterate no one here cares about your instructing experience...   

[quote]You're right, no one cares about instructing experience. [/quote]


you said it...

[quote]no one cares about instructing experience[/quote]

My opinion is worth squat, but I care about
instructing experience - and so do other people
who's opinions do count.

We had an older guy here at my tiny airport,
do his PPL and CPL.  I did his class 4 instructor
rating a couple years back, when he had maybe
250TT and since then he upgraded to a class 3,
and did his single IFR, his multi VFR, and his
multi IFR.

He clocked 1000TT - almost all of it instructing -
and now he is spending the summer flying C206
and C 210 at someplace with lake or fort in the
name, having a great time and doing well.

As you might suspect, doing an instructor rating
with me is not particularly easy.  And despite
what you might hear, he learned an awful lot
during the 750 hours of dual that he gave after
that.

[quote]least one thousand hours  PIC in commercial aviation.[/quote]

I can go along with 1000 hours --- but why make it 'in commercial aviation' ?  Can an experienced 'recreational' pilot not be as good an instructor as someone who works in the industry - at least for a new student who only wants to fly for fun?

Agreed - if your goal is to fly for a living, then get the training from someone with experience doing what you want to do - but don't exclude the other folks. Some of the issues I saw in ab-initio training is the fact that it is very tailored to training the working pilot. Extreme examples - flight schools where they all wear white shirts and epaulettes, you are taught 'airline' procedures from day 1. I chose a school with a more laid back approach, as all I ever want to do is fly for fun.

When I get to 1000 hours PIC, I would not be a good instructor for someone learning to fly airline style (IFR, schedules etc...) - but I might make a damn good instructor for someone like me learning to fly VFR for fun.

Horses for courses.

Bottom line, I totally agree with the experience idea, just not WHAT experience.