Lol ^^ did they just call a T-6 "the jet"? Nice....I have a friend that went through Vance that (while telling "One time at Vance Camp" stories) always accidentally calls it "the jet" too. Maybe it's just an AF thing
No, it's not an "AF" thing...it's a T-6 pilot thing.
Everyone I know makes fun of those guys for using that phrase to describe the T-6.
Of course, inevitably what follows is a ridiculous defensive diatribe about how a turboprop is a "jet" that just happens to drive a prop. Yeah, whatever.
Is it common practice for members of the military to train foreigners?
Lol ^^ did they just call a T-6 "the jet"? Nice....I have a friend that went through Vance that (while telling "One time at Vance Camp" stories) always accidentally calls it "the jet" too. Maybe it's just an AF thing
If you can call what that miserable excuse for an instructor pilot is doing is "training", then yes.
If you can call what that miserable excuse for an instructor pilot is doing is "training", then yes.
Of course, I also slipped and called the "PCL" the throttle for almost a year... and now I sometimes slip and call the throttles in the tanker the "PCLs."
That's an example of a not-so-great instructional input given the circumstances.
There are definitely times for different types of instruction, from asking a question ("what do you think we should do now?"), to prompting ("check the airspace border..."), to coaching ("pull a little harder so we don't get so close to the border"), to directing ("hard right for airspace"), to intervening ("I have the aircraft").
They're all valid, and none of them are fundamentally better than the other. You have to decide which one to use and when, and it all depends on the student, the phase of training, the conditions, the situation, etc.
In the case of handling a non-English speaker who is doing something the instructor can't physically intervene with, you are limited to everything before that.
I expect a military person to be able to comply with instructions being yelled at them - I bet if you put MikeD in an plane and shouted at him he would be able to do as he was told with minimal complication - it is just part of the military in my book.
I've gone from Eagle to '38, back to Eagle, then back to '38. Owch. I can barely remember which term goes with which airplane.