Bob Gardner wrote:

I have dropped long-time friends like the proverbial hot potato when
they refused to explore the low end of the envelope for fear of
stalling....and these were licensed pilots, not students. You can't
teach someone whose mind is made up.


Is this really the case? I'm 45 and got my PPL in '79. Most of the other
pilots I fly with today are either a little older than I am or in most
cases WAY older than I am. I just don't have a lot of experience flying
with pilots that were trained after I was. An even though I was
trained in '79 the training I received would have been right at home in
the early to mid 60's.

My one recent experience was with a young CFI when I was getting a BFR
and this kid was scared of stalls. Hell, he damn near made me scared of
them.