Originally Posted by Pilotpip

His royal highness beat me to it. You want to be a pro some day? Act like one now. We might get our numbers fed to us, but we still have to make sure they are legit.

Take 10 minutes to get a weather briefing, and do performance calculations. Yes, it's a PITA. But guess what? You won't be asking elementary questions like you did here. I'm sorry, but what you're doing is just lazy.

Furthermore, there's this little thing in the Regs about preflight planning. What's your defense when you get ramp checked and have NOTHING to support that you did that preflight planning?

This might have been my greatest pet-peeve with my post-solo students. It downright infuriated me when a commercial student was unprepared.