Wanting to Know

[Typhoon1244]

My younger brother took a guy to a non-tower field in a 172 to do the guy's first solo. The pulled off on the parallel taxiway, little-bro got out, gave the guy his last minute "you'll-do-fine" briefing, then slammed the door.

The instant the door closed, our excited, nervous solo student firewalled the throttle and blasted off right there on the taxiway...nearly took little-bro's head off with the stabilizer.

He managed to do the rest of the day's flying on the runway, but man!

 

[nck4857]

One of my friend's students was on his solo cross country and somehow hit the prop on the runway during landing somehow. Anyways, he pulls onto the ramp, sets the parking brake and gets out and stands in front of the prop (still running) to see if he can see any damage. He doesn't see any so he flies the plane back.

 

[WrightAvia]

Funny coincidence...I worked in diving and salvage in the navy. Our unit was Harbor Clearance Unit Two (which later on became Mobile Diving and Salvage Two) and our unofficial motto was "there are more navy divers looking for pilots, than pilots looking for divers".

Quote one paragraph from the IFH or Kirschner where the RMI is "primary" for flying an arc. The RMI is secondary and is only good for flying a radial and knowing what radial you are on, it does not tell you DME distance from the station. All you need to fly an ARC is a VOR and DME, anything else is red wheels.

I spent significant time in teaching instrument training in an accelerated environment and never did the lack of RMI needle usage ever come up in conversation with an examiner in regards to an instrument pilot applicant I recomended.

I think you guys are missreading the post and transposing something into it that isn't there. You cannot tell me that you just flew up a radial, made a 90 degree turn on the arc and then stayed established on the arc by staring at RMI needles. Even a child could see that is wrong.

 

[Whirlwind]

Well this guy wants to go on a business trip and management assigns me to be the safety pilot for his insurance carrier.

Lucky you!!!

The 35 minutes of idling in front of the FBO trying to figure out how the SID didn't match his RNAV route filing.

Huh? He has you with him, and he sits there for 35 minutes? Did he not once ever ask you for help?

joe rich guy you can't tell me a thing attitude...

And there you have the key problem. Someone needs to send him to FSI to be shown why his attitude will kill himself. Let him crash the sim a few times.

He was a real ass from begining to end. Couldn't tell him a thing

I'm no expert, but I already know it is people like him who scare me to death.

You can teach anyone to fly, but you can't teach a safe attiude.

So I just took the attitude that my job was in the interest of the insurance company and preventing damage or bodily injury

Good choice, it probably kept you from having to hurt him.