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Old April 15th 05, 05:34 PM
Matt Barrow
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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That's very common. When you spend more time doing useless paperwork

and
silly training classes than flying its very discouraging. The actual
flying
and SAR mission training is great.


CAP pilots as a group are the dumbest ones out there. Give me a pattern
full of first solo's rather than one CAP pilot in the units 182. They
don't know how to talk on the radio, they have no idea where they are or
where they're going, they don't do what they're told or even what they
request to do, etc. It's amazing that CAP can ever find anybody who

went
down.


We had a doctor in a Bo go down near here a few years ago and they called

in
CAP for the SAR. They flew for 3 days at 1000 agl searching. One of the
pipeline pilots finally decided to expanding spiral search pattern from

the
last known position and found him less than an hour later about a quater
mile fom the center of the CAP grid.


Seems the one's that CAP picks for flight/training are more a matter of
politics than talent.