I had some long spiel typed up about higher tickets prices, overhauling the FAA, blah, blah, blah...

The truth is that each one of us needs to take responsibility for ourselves! It's not what they should or could have done better, it's what can I do better!

Next time you're in recurrent ask another question, don't push to get out 30 mins early. In sim ask the sim instructor if you/he could replacte or demostrate some situation or secenrio after your sim session. Take your time to educate your fellow lower time pilots about what it means to acutally learn something rather than to "knock it out".

Especially those of us that were instructors. We all know the FAA writtens are a joke, but find a way to use the requirement to push your students to really learn. Have them understand their aircraft systems, FARs, limitations, what a stall is and that you're really teaching them stall recogination and recovery, not how to stall an aircraft.

Screw teaching to "minimum standards", screw the "PTS"! Push yourself and take personal responsibility! If we each did that, then we don't need the FAA to set regulations, airlines to hire at ----tt, or the NTSB to find probable cause to be "pilot error"!


Own it!





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