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Old 02-07-2008, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ⌐ AV8OR WANNABE View Post
Got you, thanks. I guess it'd be a tough call. IF I had flown with an individual I personally found to be unsafe I'd probably do the same. However only if I'd flown with him/her myself.
In my military experience, I rarely ran across a guy that was so ham fisted, I wouldn't trust him to fly the aircraft. You can always teach a guy to help him improve his stick and rudder skills. We all aren't born Chuck Yeager.

What is much harder to teach a guy is how to be a mature, level headed aircraft commander, that leads by example. In the C-130 community, we routinely went on the road for 2 weeks to destinations all over the world. Handling the crew, along with all the other problems that can arise on a world wide trip takes a mature leader. Over the years, we had a handful of pilots that could fly the hell out of the Herk, but the CO didn't trust them on the road, because they were "goofballs," and I use that term loosely. Needless to say, these fellows never ended up signing for an aircraft.
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