CFIs: THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE!

I think there is a bit of fear that when you explain something to people and
they sit there not having a clue as to what you are saying they loose their
credibility.
Therefore they must take you down a peg in order to equalize the exchange.
I have issue with people that say can't understand me _after_ I dumb it
down. Like I have some problem that I can't communicate to my fellow human
beings.

For instance, budget meeting to be had with the C.F.O to the President of
our Parent company.
He says to me, "tell me why we need this equipment _IN ENGLISH_ Okay?"
So I tell him , this database will allow us to track all of the material we
produce and attach any corresponding legal or accounting documents to it.
This way we can find a product and all the costs and billing information in
one search"

He says "I said in English"
The phone ring and he says into the phone "No I said the eltap and the IBIDA
aren't right. Look at the Delta."

I'm thinking "that was English?"
The difference is, and I toot my own horn here, is that I was genuinely
intrigued to know what the hell he was talking about. He , on the other
hand, needed spoon feeding.

The epilogue was that his "soundbites only" description of my budget items
got me 90% less money than I had asked for.

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Dave A
Aging Student Pilot



"Proton" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:51:01 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:



When we were doing touch and goes during a complex checkout yesterday we
had
an incident right after touchdown because of a blue heron in our immediate
path. The CFI said "to your detriment you already had the flaps at one
notch...", which confused me.

Later, he pulled the power on me approaching the pattern. During the
debrief he said "You see what happened? You forgot to do your third GUMPs
check but to your detriment you remembered to do it on final." To my
detriment I remembered to do one last GUMP check? I think he meant to my
CREDIT. (Unless there's some reason you wouldn't want a notch of flaps in
an Arrow II during short-field TnGs or wouldn't want to do the last "three
green, prop forward" before touchdown.) I might have gone home thinking
he
was telling me it's incorrect to have a notch of flaps had it not been for
his later mistake.

My instrument instructor used to like to say, in reference to the DE,
"one
of his pet peeves is to..." "One of his pet peeves is pattern B." If
his
pet peeve is Pattern B, why are we spending so much time on it? "His pet
peeve is to keep you in a holding pattern." Apparently, she believes that
"pet peeve" means "things he likes to do." Entirely excusable, but
another
example of language inaccuracy which might be potentially
counterproductive.

It's important not to confuse your students. Using correct terminology
and
language is important to that end. Please remain vigilante. ;

-c


Welkome to Americuh in the twenty-fihrst centry.

I work on computers. I have this problem every damn day. When I hear
other techs ask me to bring things down to their level, I cringe.
Would a heart surgeon ask a PA to simplify his explanation of blood
pressure's importance during a valve replacement? No.

There is a major bout of anti-intellectualism going on right now
that's the cause of the destruction of English.

-Proton, who got a D in English....

"What-chu readin' for?"