In article ,
Richard Riley wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 22:26:25 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:


I guess it's time to spend some time with an instructor re-learning how to
deal with distractions.

Years ago, when I had about 100 hours, I got "checked out" by a CFI to
fly 177 with the A&E Flying Club in Hawthorn, CA. The entire flight
he acted like an ass, swearing at me, grabbing the yolk and rolling us
off in an entirely different direction, directing me to do stuff that
I hadn't planned on doing. I was about ready to announce an emergency
just to get on the ground before he killed us.

He signed me off. I never flew with that club again and dropped my
membership a couple of months later. I figured if they had jerks like
that as CFI, their maintenence would be just as bad.

Recently I was talking with a member of the club which is, amazing to
me, still around. He said "Oh, that's just his way of seeing if you
can deal with distractions."

I still wouldn't fly with them.

I flew with A&E Flying Club back in 1963-64! They had the best airplanes
at the cheapest rates.

Would you believe:

Meyers 200A $12/hr
B-35 Bonanza $9/hr
F-35 Bonanza $11/hr
C-172 $7/hr
C-140 $6/hr


All wet, tach time-- no damned Hobbs!

I flew all of them-- the Meyers was my favorite. The main point of the
club was that all members were assigned to maintenance crews and put in
for scheduled (supervised) work details to do routine maintenance. I
would venture that the planes were as well, or better, maintained than
the FBO planes.