Occasionally I am forced to encounter an old timer who with their wealth of experience amounting to 500 hours over 40 years of flying decides to argue with me the instructor. Usually it is during a BFR and often it is about how to properly enter the traffic pattern.

Upon reaching the moment where the old timer tells me that he does not care what I have to say and that he is going to do it his way only is when I declare the lesson to be over. Why would I give a BFR to someone who openly admits to breaking with the rules or conventional aviation procedure?

I don't want my name in that guys logbook. Why don't they just lie to me and get through the BFR? Not smart or professional. In many cases I think they just keep on flying without a BFR. Hobby pilots are hard to deal with.

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