Simulators

On May 16, 12:21*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
a writes:
Rather defensive, aren't you?

Not at all. Just making an observation.

You, having no PIC (actual) have little real world aviation
experience to draw on. "I read" or "I simulated" does not carry much
credibility, and to those ignorant but eager to learn of the realities
of general aviation would be prudent to consider the source of advice
and/or teachings.

There are instructors who have never flown. You can become an instructor
without flying, as I recall. Do you dismiss them as well?

Your pontifications are sometimes right, other times
wrong.

How often right, and how often wrong?

The reactions those statements draw help the inexperienced
reader evaluate them.

The smart reader always verifies everything he sees on USENET by some other
means.

I've gotten useful ideas from this newsgroup, but not from you. Some
suggestions I've posted have become part of other aviator's
checklists, and that's a nice form of payback. I suspect it's a reward
you don't often get, but I could be wrong.

Actually, I provide instruction in other venues, and that seems to work quite
well. There are far fewer dorks when there's no anonymity.

MXwrote


There are instructors who have never flown. You can become an
instructor
without flying, as I recall. Do you dismiss them as well?

I would dismiss as laughable anyone who presented themselves as a
certified flight instructor who had never flown as PIC. That is not
the sort of person I'd like instructing in spin recovery. There may
be areas in aviation where in instructor is not required to be
certified as a pilot, this pilot has found no need in some 3245 hours
TT for such 'instruction'.

It is the rare 800 mile trip where an M20J does not offer better door
to door time than does an airliner, and in the return trip, where on
leaves when ready rather than on an airliner's schedule the difference
is even greater. The only down side is a concluding dinner will not
include wine for me..

By the way, here's a question for other executives who might be
reading this: who does not agree with "18 holes of golf will tell you
more about a man's character than a 6 hour interview"? If I am
interviewing a mid to high level executive who is otherwise competent
and he mentions he plays golf, we're off to my club.