Originally Posted by
CaptainTeezy
You have never let a student take you for a wild ride, that allows you to learn a lot more than just sitting in the right seat of a jet.
You have never flown ALONE, in hard IFR, with out a GPS, with out an auto pilot, working your way through thunderstorms, managing icing situations in small piston powered airplane that can't climb or out run anything very well, gone VOR to VOR, flown and done the radios, and your attitude shows how inadequate you most likely are. You push buttons and the jet flys, that's it son.
Your foundation is very weak. Just like the Captain of Colgan 3407. He had no CFI time, very little solo PIC time, and he liked taking short cuts that kept him from being a CFI or box hauler.
personally i think taking a small piston powered airplane into hard ifr with icing conditions and thunderstorms in the area is not such a bueno idea. and with all do respect you have no idea what kind of flying ive done outside of 121. and what attitude is it to which you refer... the fact that im proud of the pilot i'm becoming and i mentioned in my very first post that i've been humbled before and i think every day in the air is another day to learn and grow as an avaitor... yep boss, sounds like a terrible attitude to me. with all due respect to the dead, i have never failed a checkride or a training event and i never would have pulled back on a stick pusher and not added power at the shaker.