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Old August 1st 06, 09:32 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default FLYING VFR IN IMC CONDITIONS

And how many hours do you have? Point is, you have
experience now.





"Roger" wrote in message
...
| On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:22:04 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| A 70 hour student may have developed some basis to judge
| their CFI, a 2 hour student has only those two hours.
|
|
| At every airport, the "old timers" can tell you, after
the
| fact that they knew "George was going to kill somebody"
but
| the unwritten rule is to never speak badly about a fellow
| aviator.
|
|
| What unwritten rule? We had one guy lose his judgmental
ability and
| quite a few of the local pilots had a talk with the FAA.
He wrecked
| three planes with one that seriously injured himself and
another
| pilot. The FAA grounded him over that and with the past
history and
| pilot input he was done.
|
| Few of us would report some one for hotdogging (within
reason), but
| when they appear to be of the "he's gonna kill some body"
most around
| here would speak up. If's he's gonna kill himself that's
just
| Darwinism.
|
|
| If there are any student pilots reading this, not all
| instructors are any good at all. Not all commercial
pilots
| are skilled and not all ATPs have good moral character or
| ethics.
|
| We have one very highly thought of, award winning
instructor on the
| field that I refuse to fly with.
|
| Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
| (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
| www.rogerhalstead.com
|
|
|
| "Thomas Borchert" wrote in
| message ...
| | Jim,
| |
| | Because students don't know any better.
| |
| |
| | Only if they don't want to.
| |
| | --
| | Thomas Borchert (EDDH)
| |
|
| Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
| (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
| www.rogerhalstead.com