Cessna414JJB
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I'm going to need to bow out of this contest if you don't mind...
Allrighty. I'll act as the student with Jtrain. :crazy:
I'm going to need to bow out of this contest if you don't mind...
I'm guessing you missed this part of my post:I can. I won't bother to post my resume on here, either. I'm pretty content with my experience.
And just for the record, none of this is to suggest that I'm a better pilot than jtrain, or vice-versa. We're both solid pilots, I have no doubt of that. He's got his strengths just as I've got mine. Just making the case that instructing isn't the only path to becoming one.
I'll admit I only skimmed this thread, but I'll just add this:
Flight instruction DOES hone your piloting skills in a way you can't achieve in regular airline operations.
I guess I'm a bit prejudiced because in the Navy we didn't have sims for the airplanes I taught in. You had to go out and do the manuevers. That meant demonstrating how to fly a buttonhook around the ship's superstructure. Or single engine approaches with the King Air's prop feathered. Or full flap/no slat landings in the DC-9.
It also gave you a better understanding of aircraft systems than the average line pilot because you had to check guy's knowledge of the same systems.
That's all.