Originally Posted by
rickair7777
If you do not show up with existing mechanical inclination or technical background, you will not really understand how turbine airplanes work. It is getting to be politically incorrect to even imply that a pilot SHOULD understand how airplanes work.
Yet people on here go on and on about not spending the money on an aviation degree to become a PROFESSIONAL pilot. These are the kinds of things a university product is taught. Entire classes on turboprops, jets, airline economics, human factors, CRM, etc.
This is not meant to de-rail the convo, but I thought the exact same thing when I read the transcript. This pilot is flying a turboprop and does not understand what a chip detector is?
Does the Q not have chip detectors?