Originally Posted by
aero550
I'm getting a little lost now. You say that you were flying, talking to ATC, and writing down the clearance? What was this so-called 25,000 hour professional in the other seat doing? If he had availed himself to doing something other than folding his arms and watching you squirm, you wouldn't have been as behind the airplane. I'm just not sure I get it.
He was watching me giggling. Of course I wouldn't have been as behind at all in that situation if we had split the load but I wouldn't have learned as much either. Now that stuff is hard coded. That was the point. It's like me letting a student do his first stall and watching while I know he's about to spin the plane. I've taught roughly 45 guys now and I've learned I can either spend a week yelling RIGHT RUDDER, wasting time, or I can let them spin it and they'll never do it again. Sometimes you have to fail, and do so miserably, to find your limitations so you can work within them, work on extending them, and becoming better at what you do. Nothing wrong with it. There was a guy in Uvalde that never flew on windy days, one day he was solo, it got windy, he crashed. He never subjected himself to the harsh environments with someone more experienced to learn from. Absolutely nothing wrong with what we did in the aircraft. The fact that it was a twin turbine we decided to do a little training in instead of a C-172 seems to freak people a little. But now if I have to "chop and drop" it's no thang