[Rant Warning] Tailwheel Training

In article , C J Campbell
wrote:

So they like to say that instructors who don't fly tailwheels or do loops or
who don't do much instruction are better instructors. They blame the
instructors for the fact that they themselves can't fly and will never
learn. EDR's rant is very typical of these people.

And I am only 49 and learned got my PPL in 1980!
I'm such a crumudgeon!
The difference is, I learned to fly from the graybeards who taught me
not to make the mistakes they did.

"EDR" wrote in message
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In article , C J Campbell
wrote:

So they like to say that instructors who don't fly tailwheels or do
loops or
who don't do much instruction are better instructors. They blame the
instructors for the fact that they themselves can't fly and will never
learn. EDR's rant is very typical of these people.

And I am only 49 and learned got my PPL in 1980!
I'm such a crumudgeon!
The difference is, I learned to fly from the graybeards who taught me
not to make the mistakes they did.

I am older than you, so mind your manners, Sonny! :-)

EDR wrote:

The difference is, I learned to fly from the graybeards who taught me
not to make the mistakes they did.

In other words, you learned from some of the people C.J. is talking about.

George Patterson
I childproofed my house, but they *still* get in.

In article , G.R. Patterson III
wrote:

EDR wrote:
The difference is, I learned to fly from the graybeards who taught me
not to make the mistakes they did.

In other words, you learned from some of the people C.J. is talking about.

Yea, you could probably say that.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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EDR wrote:

The difference is, I learned to fly from the graybeards who taught me
not to make the mistakes they did.

In other words, you learned from some of the people C.J. is talking about.

The ones CJ says don't know how to fly. Funny, I learn more from the grey
beards in five minutes than several hours with the airline wannabes. Many
of the grey beards have flown anything and everything and learned from all
of them. The wannabes and other CFIs with 500 or even 5,000 of the same
hour in a 152/172 have very little to offer.


George Patterson
I childproofed my house, but they *still* get in.

Funny, I learn more from the grey
beards in five minutes than several hours with the airline wannabes. Many
of the grey beards have flown anything and everything and learned from all
of them. The wannabes and other CFIs with 500 or even 5,000 of the same
hour in a 152/172 have very little to offer.


Amen to that!