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Do you allow landings on short fields?
Sylvain wrote in
: Michael wrote: How exactly does a commercial certificate help? In my experience, commercial pilots are NOT better pilots than private pilots with the same number of hours. well, it could be argued that someone who worked towards a commercial ticket has had a lot more recurrent training -- and demonstrated a greater interest in improving his/her knowledge and skills -- than someone who spent the same number of hours making holes in the sky... the number of hours doesn't tell the whole story either. but seriously, one could also wonder how someone who cannot land a small aircraft -- I presume that's what we are talking about -- on a 2000' runway managed to get a private certificate in the first place... I am not really sure how a club/FBO could improve their safety records via just imposing more arbitrary rules that are a pain in the neck to the majority of pilots who would be doing just fine without them; there are 'problem pilots' out there -- I can think of one guy hanging around on my local field who managed to run out of fuel in one incident, do a gear up landing in another, and who knows what else -- and we kind of all know who they are; not much an issue of number of hours or ratings as you point out, but of attitude; not even sure recurrent training would do the trick either... --Sylvain Are you referring to the guy who did a gear up in SQ2's Arrow 33807 a few years ago? If so, he is a real terror. He has run an Arrow out of fuel at least 2 times. One time he managed to badly damage his son for life. Yet he doesn't learn. I once had an Arrow 7526J reserved for an Angel Flight. He returns the aircraft late (around 11:15 AM, it was due back 8 PM the night before), totally unapologetic, and with less than 0.3 gallons of usable fuel. Not a typo. We put slightly over 47.7 gallons in to top it off. Even the fuel truck operator couldn't believe it. (I don't want to put the specifics in the public forum, so I sent this to you as a private email.) -- Marty Shapiro Silicon Rallye Inc. |
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Do you allow landings on short fields?
Marty Shapiro wrote:
Are you referring to the guy sounds like him (except that it was an Archer and not an Arrow that he ued to run out of gas with his kid... sorry to hear the kid was hurt though); I know, I was supposed to fly the dang aircraft next --Sylvain ps by the way, the email address in the header won't work anymore; use giraldus at yahoo |
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Do you allow landings on short fields?
Sylvain wrote:
Too bad that the only interaction most pilots -- I am talking renters here, I presume that owners would be more involved -- have with the nice folks who maintain our aircraft is via the squawk list... Some owners are active with their mechanics, some aren't. My mechanic divides her customers into two groups. Aircraft owners who will turn a wrench on their plane and those who are "just pilots." A guy came into the shop one day and said he thought the battery was shot in his plane. We were sitting in the back eating lunch and she told him to bring it in and she'd test it. There was a blank stare and then she realized, "You're just a pilot. Ron, go help him take his battery out." |
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