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Old 03-16-2007 | 12:19 PM
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Another issue is these cookie-cutter, herd them through like cattle type of flight schools (pan-am and atp) which don't produce very highly skilled pilots. There is no way someone flying around vfr in an archer under strickly controlled supervision can learn to fully think for themselves. We've had two such instructors work at the school where I have taught for the past couple of years and both have damaged airplane (one was totaled), no one has been hurt (thankfully) but we no longer will employ an instructor if he attended such a school. In my experience they are dangerous and don't have the experience to exercise sound judgement and were never shown it either. The problem will be when that guy then becomes a captain of an airliner with a 300 hour atp graduate in the right seat, who is going to be supervising then? That's probably about the time they take off on the wrong runway....
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