Teacherjh wrote:


If other DEs are not doing this, this is their failing (and our problem).

I have to completely agree with this.

My checkrides - and for that matter, my various check "outs" (ie. club, FBO,
etc.) - have all been pretty deep. Now, this may be because I don't take
that "say as little as possible" advice one gets, but I suspect that the
examiners are playing the major role in this. I think they are looking for
my limits.

Personally, I think this terrific. In fact, I'd expect it and I'd worry in
its absence.

Dudley has very carefully not said that improved comprehension yields
improved safety, but I believe that to be true.


To fully understand how my "findings" on this would fit
into an overall picture one has to realize that my training standards
are MUCH higher than the legal minimum standard.


It's all well and good to have high standards. But when are standards
"too
high"? (and why are THOSE not the miniumu standards?)

I suppose, in the abstract, standards can be too high. And if we made the
PPL standards as high as possible, we'd have no Commercial and no ATP.

Still, Dudley's statement that some pilots have insufficient comprehension
is worrisome. Someone else used here the expression "Santa Claus DE",
which bugs me even more.

- Andrew