[Kharon]

If the Alphabet Soup Groups (ASG) don’t get their collective acts together soon and start pushing back, it won't matter much whether you are a PIRC or PRIC.  

What a load of BOLLOCKS until the training syllabus was ‘Mummy-fied’ thousands of pilots were taught the basics of incipient spins and stalls, the folly of removing this very basic skill is being demonstrated world wide now, to the point where a special qualification is mandatory to teach:-

The following conditions apply if you don’t have the spinning flight activity endorsement:

• you must not permit a pilot under flight instruction to manipulate the aeroplane controls during any of the following manoeuvres:
•
o a short field landing or short field take-off
o a maximum obstacle clearance take-off and climb
o a steep turn
o a stall or an approach to a stall
o
• except during normal take-off and landing manoeuvres, you must immediately take control of the aeroplane if at any time the aeroplane drops below 1.3Vs  speed for the configuration at the time, or the angle of attach approaches the stalling angle.

Now I liked my Nanny – but I left her apron strings at the age of four and by 5 y.o. I could get myself to school and back, without being run over, getting lost or falling over my boot laces (which I could manage quite well).  Ye Gods, what are we becoming: special permission, approval and pre breaking wind check list please CASA, lest the shit/fart separator fails.

Toot – FFS - toot.

Edit to add – FCOL the first encounter with a short field, dead stick landing should NOT be a solo event, close to last light on a rainy, windy day.  What are these idiots thinking.


There, I feel better now..