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P Please get some time with a flight instructor. Do some windy day time pattern work. Getting a morning TAF for a night flight may not be best practice.

My advice is to practice. I feel it is a mistake to chastise yourself for a single poor performance. All of us have good days and not so good days, it is just more noticeable in aviation.

I found it s l o w today.

It depends on your personality. My personality doesn't believe in perfect so I would go with instructor one. I find the further I let a learner fly into the mistake the more he learns from it. In my opinion the learners job is to make mistakes and my job as a flight instructor is to make the...

A flight instructor is a person who teaches others to operate aircraft.

I extended student pilot’s ninety day solo for another instructor who was not available. I observed the learner doing everything to standards in a two place and carefully noted everything in his log book along with my endorsement. On his very next flight he crashed his single place gyroplane...

Resignation: the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable. In my opinion based on my experience people exercise their free will in ways contrary to their best interest because they are ignorant of the consequences. I feel as a flight instructor it is my job to teach the aviation...

Nice job on the video and I feel it is great preparation for the CFI practical test. Not doing a passenger safety brief is a common error and there are dead people because of it.

The way the FAA test questions are written. Flight planning and navigation by dead reckoning and paper charts. Diversion. Emergency procedures. Passenger safety brief. The way the FARs are written.

As a flight instructor I can try to save people from themselves. Based on what I have learned from this accident I will try harder. I do not share your resignation.

It is my observation that learners often get lost and confused. I have no doubts that I looked lost and confused as I learned to fly. I sometimes did not understand the priorities of aviation. I feel aviation is a very different world and some people take longer to adjust to it than others...

I have found that Gryder is more about drama and condemnation than reality. I do agree that this pilot made some poor decisions. It is amazing to me that the pilot didn’t run into one of the many nearby hills as SBP is very much in a valley. Hopefully he will get some training before the next...

In my experience the only way I can make more than wages is to have people working for me.

It may be time for you to step away from the mirror skyking3286 and speak for yourself. I don’t know anyone who would stop to get their carryon luggage with a cabin filled with smoke and fire outside the windows. Many evacuations from airlines have gone well in the USA.

Many people have been hurt or killed in ultralight aircraft because they imagined that because a license was not required that training was not required. There are people who have survived flying without training and just as many who have not.

Thank You RyanB!

It sounds like a laxative to me. I am the moderator of a gyroplane forum and we have lower standards.

Give it a try. Righteous indignation expressed well works for me.

For me the hyperbole was an important part of the allure of the “captain's” posts. I love it when I am reminded to forget. It was a reminder that there are alternate realities. Did you Lance buyer story leave you with a shattered life? The perception of consequences are part of the fun for me.

I enjoyed seeing the world from the "Captains" perspective. It helped me to be grateful for my life. I am sad to see him gone.