Stupid pre-PPL pilot

To be quite honest, most of my student pilots were much better at crosswinds than the majority of private pilots I dealt with for BFRs, currency checks, and even IFR training.

Most student pilots are very current, very knowledgeable, and have recently dealt with a series of challenging flight maneuvers. A lot of PPL folks get stuck in occasional $100 hamburger mode and suffer a serious degradation in skills. Most of the time, my money is on the advanced student pilot rather than the low time, rusty PPL.
 
Biggest problem? Taking out to much power on base just to have to put it back in on final. not real critical, just more of an airmanship thing.
 
Chucco said:
The landing looked solid to me, but I would have a talk about crosswind limitations if he/she were my student. Do you guys sign off your students with the maximum demonstrated crosswind component as the limitation? I usually put a lower limitiation on there endorsement just to cover my rear and thiers.:p

That being said, I still think if the crosswind was as strong as was claimed, he/she did a pretty good job.
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Exactly. I've canceled multiple xc's post-PPL with wind that was about this bad and some a little less. Yeah, he made a good landing, but I still think he shouldn't have been signed off for it, since I probably wouldn't fly in it.....

...and if the tower seriously asked him if he wanted to land, there must have been some crosswind, and if there was, he is pretty good at x-wind landings
 
Jpax said:
I wonder if "The tower actually asked me if I was sure I wanted to land." means the controller said "Winds are 320 at 17 gusting 26" ...and that's how the student pilot translated it, as a question.
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Bare in mind we are talking about KBDR, quite possibly the worst air traffic controllers in the country.
 
Am I missing something? Looks like he nailed it to me. Good for him.

At the school where I soloed, there was a 7kt x-wind limit for student pilots. It was BS, why have a blanket number? Why not leave it up to the CFI? Because of that stupid rule, it took me 3.5 months to do my solo XCs because the airport almost always has an x-wind. 7kts. Seriously? Jeez.
 
Slugger said:
Exactly. I've canceled multiple xc's post-PPL with wind that was about this bad and some a little less. Yeah, he made a good landing, but I still think he shouldn't have been signed off for it, since I probably wouldn't fly in it.....

...and if the tower seriously asked him if he wanted to land, there must have been some crosswind, and if there was, he is pretty good at x-wind landings
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Yep, cause if YOU wouldn't fly in it, then no one should. You are the best and no one can exceed your skillset...
 
DPApilot said:
Yep, cause if YOU wouldn't fly in it, then no one should. You are the best and no one can exceed your skillset...
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To be fair, I think he's meaning that IF he was that student's CFI then he would not have let his stud fly in it...not a sweeping generalization about his skillset compared to the rest of the GA world.
 
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