gear up landing: "There are those who have, and..."

gatt wrote:
"...those who will forgot to lower their landing gear."

Was told this by a guest instructor. I'm not at all comfortable with
this.

Thoughts?

-c

My thought is that such fatalistic thinking serves no purpose
whatsoever. Surely there are better teaching tools than "Just accept
the inevitable".

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Was told this by a guest instructor. I'm not at all comfortable with
this.

My thought is that such fatalistic thinking serves no purpose
whatsoever. Surely there are better teaching tools than "Just accept
the inevitable".

This was the same instructor who said "To your detriment, you remembered to
do your third GUMPS check on final...."

I'm thinking it's time to go back to my regular instructor.

-c

wrote:

My thought is that such fatalistic thinking serves no purpose
whatsoever. Surely there are better teaching tools than "Just accept
the inevitable".

It's not about accepting the inevitable, it's about saying some other
way than, "There are those who have, and those that will die first"