"Michael" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote
To expand a little further on my earlier post, I simply note that nobody
is
beating down your door asking your opinion of what the certification
requirements for a CFI should be. The supply of 10,000 hour ex-fighter
jocks
willing to take CFI jobs at less than minimum wage appears to be
somewhat
limited, to say the least.

Actually, there are more than a few out there. Quite a few of the
people who taught me fit into that category, if only loosely.

Really? Who were these instructors? What were their actual qualifications?


Although I have done loops, spins, rolls, etc., perhaps I am not as
impressed with myself for having done them as you are. They are
undeniably a
lot of fun. But do they really help you to learn to teach? I think not.

Wait until the first time a student inadvertently puts you into a
spin, then come back and tell me about it.

Already happened. What do you want to know about it? Most of them just do
what you tell them to do to get out of the spin. A few say "Wheeee! Let's do
it again!" which makes me wonder how inadvertant it was. Only one froze and
asked me to take the plane. I made him practice stalls until the cows came
home.


Frankly, your incessant criticism of flight instructors, airline pilots,
pilots in general, mechanics, the FAA, and virtually everybody else
involved
with aviation puts you at odds with a whole lot of people that I suspect
might know a little bit more than you do.

Any criticism of an entrenched system ALWAYS puts the critic at odds
with the people who benefit from that system. So what else is new?


Ah. Just like all the other crackpots, you think you are Galileo fighting
the establishment. Now I understand.


Your demands for extreme qualifications place you on the lunatic fringe.

Do you truly think a solo loop, spin, and roll are extreme
qualifications?

I think your hourly requirements are ridiculous. Your ideal flight
instructor appears to be somebody who spends no time flight instructing.