Because I was older than most of the instructors around Boeing Field (got my
CFI at age 40), the older pilots seemed to gravitate to me for recurrency
and BFR's. Pilots I taught, of whatever age, were no problem...it was
(usually) airplane owners, older almost by definition, who were skittish
about getting too slow and wouldn't even try. No signoffs for them, of
course, but there were lots of other CFIs on the field.

Bob

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote in message
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Bob Gardner wrote:

I have dropped long-time friends like the proverbial hot potato when they
refused to explore the low end of the envelope for fear of
stalling....and these were licensed pilots, not students. You can't teach
someone whose mind is made up.


Is this really the case? I'm 45 and got my PPL in '79. Most of the other
pilots I fly with today are either a little older than I am or in most
cases WAY older than I am. I just don't have a lot of experience flying
with pilots that were trained after I was. An even though I was trained in
'79 the training I received would have been right at home in the early to
mid 60's.

My one recent experience was with a young CFI when I was getting a BFR and
this kid was scared of stalls. Hell, he damn near made me scared of them.