Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:


Then you should fly with the current crop of CFI's and ask them hard
questions about what they do and why?

I accidentally misquoted Buttman (?) in my reply to you. In a nutshell,
I've flown with a current crop of CFIs and hang out with them weekly. My
checkride is next week. I'm not doing it to build hours, by the way,
and certainly not for the money; I want to teach people to fly.

I have a hard time with new CFI's who can't teach a forward slip
without the longitudinal
axis going 10 degrees off line.

If that was the case they'd never pass the checkride.

And what of the zero flap forward slip to a landing? What about the
cross control stall discussion? To what meaning? BFD they can discuss
it and can't perform it

I demonstrated spins in a C-150 for the chief instructor last month.
It's a required logbook endorsement for the CFI checkride. You have to
demonstrate spins and instructional proficiency, and then if you fail to
demonstrate instructional proficiency during the checkride you have to
go demonstrate spins themselves again with the instructor.

Been there, done that.

I challenge you to show me 10 out of 100
new CFI's who can do a coherent discussion and demonstration of spins
and recoveries or who have actually done them?

Won't name names on the usenet, but 8/8 of the new CFIs in the last year
have done them and all of the older CFIs have as well.

-c