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Old 08-01-2008, 12:28 PM
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This is a perfect case of the know-nothing. I had a student like this. He tended to ask irrelevant questions outside of the realm of our lesson and could not grasp instructions I gave him unless I said them 3 to 5 times. And he was training for his Commercial. Given your situation, I don't think you needed to show him the error of his ways. But, I encourage you to talk to his CFI. Let him or her know how the student acted and your concerns, then let it go.

If I were that student's instructor, I would file that and remember when we started night XC. I might even surprise him with an exercise: plan a night flight. This would let me gauge his response, see if he learned something. If on the flight he planned like that, we would go, I'd be silent and unhelpful and then we'd go home and have a conversation about his study habits and the realities of being a pilot.
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