I teach the instrument PTS in instrument conditions. It doesn't take
balls, just knowledge, skill, and confidence. I guess that it does
take balls, however, to put your real name and email address on the
NG. Where are yours? My balls have 12,000 hours of flight time. IF
you insist on flying in VMC with every instrument rated pilot and
aircraft that are new to you prior to getting wet, your comfort level
must be fairly low. Your attitude is the reason I am booked 4 months
ahead with students. The HPN incident was NOT a case of going to
minimums. It was the mistake of going below minimums. Yes, my
students get value for their training dollar, not a scarey carnival
ride. My post doesn't have any abusive language in it. Why does
yours?


On Sun, 08 May 2005 17:12:13 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 08 May 2005 15:44:11 GMT, Bill Zaleski
wrote:

If your "instructional personal minimums" don't include training In
IMC down to legal minimums, in an airworthy aircraft, you are cheating
your students and charging too much, at any price. My students get
what they pay for. "Not on my ticket" is not an option for a
competent instructor.

Bill Zaleski www.instrumentratings.com


You ought to try reading the post before running off at the mouth.

I said I would not do an IPC in IMC with a pilot I have never flown
with in an aircraft I have never been in.

That is far from "training in IMC down to legal minimums", which I do
regularly, although it's really none of your business.

And we only have your say-so that your students get what they pay for.
Our recent thread about a CFII who was taking a student pilot to
minimums at HPN where they were both killed was an example of a
student who got "more than he paid for". Just because you have balls
doesn't mean you are giving someone his money's worth of training.

If you want to do unusual attitudes partial panel in IMC in a strange
aircraft on your ticket, that's your business. Just because I think
you are an idiot if you do, doesn't necessarily make you one.