Jay Beckman writes:

Sure as hell, some student pilot will believe his increadible bull**** and
go get themselves killed.

That is far less likely than a student pilot being killed by his
unquestioning acceptance of misinformation from a flight instructor
whom he has been told not to question.

It amazes me that students are being advised here to accept
misinformation and inaccuracy just for a piece of paper. However, it
does explain the misdeeds of some pilots. And it does resemble the
credentialism that afflicts society in general--a belief that the
paper is more important than what it putatively represents (because
restrictions address the paper, not the qualities it is supposed to
document).

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