There's absolutely nothing stopping someone from diving into the Vol 2. Highlights and bookmarks are free, too.

“You gonna pay me for that”?

I agree with you....and......not to make this a military/civilian thing, but......”shack”!

Might I also add that we are our own worst enemy. As over achievers, we showed up fully prepared for training. The instructors had to show they knew more so that raised the bar.....consequently, over multiple iterations we got to questions like...”How many ridges on the trim button?” in the never ending game of stump the dummy. It became unruly. I can’t even remember the last time any type of oral question was asked during CQ....or might I add....very little during IQ with the “new” training. Overall...the new way is not only easier(admittedly) but, more importantly...more rational, logical, and real world....I’ll say it again....we aren’t being hired to be “test pilots”

sorry, I was never housebroken.

A call to excellence is one thing; perhaps that's the spirit in which the sign was intended, and that's the way I've chosen to take it, because the alternative is frankly embarrassing. Taken literally, the sign says DL pilots (or maybe just NYC-based DL pilots) *are* the best airline pilots (it formerly said the best pilots, period) and infers that all others are inferior. That smacks of the sort of hubris most experienced pilots try to avoid, the sort of pride that goeth before the fall.

Striving to be the best is great. Thinking you already are - well, that's when a guy needs to be reminded to never stop learning...

This 100%.

OMG...we finally found something we agree on....I can now go into retirement.....”complete”

Totally agree…except the Vol. 2 is terrible. Absolutely zero deep-dives into the systems. A more detailed Vol. 2 would go a long way for those of us who want more systems knowledge.

That sounds like some of the dumb mil flying questions I'd get. At what pressure will this button pop? The one that is hidden under a cowling that I can't see, can't monitor, can't control in any way, and won't even know that it popped until post flight? That's the one. I don't care, but I'll let Mx know it popped since I can't do anything about it.

yeah was not saying UPT was easy. just responding to drum’s dumb statement that CFI was easy because UPT exists. It is even more ironic givin drums post history, I doubt he had to take a civilian CFI checkride of any kind. Both have their unique challenges and are not terribly comparable.

Wrt your comment on “no limit on do overs” while you definitely can legally, it will be a huge black mark if you need to re take it more than once or (maybe) twice