How to tell you're in a good indoc class

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
When one classmate asks "What is a coupled approach?"

And one of the older direct entry captains in the class answers, "When the CA and FO are holding hands as the guard the throttles..."
 
LOL, we didn't have any DEC's in my class, but a bunch of ex-military certainly kept the class on their toes... ;)

I start my second indoc class at the end of September, so we'll see how that one goes (going from 121 to fractional 135). Don't fret the firehose treatment, it'll click pretty quickly and then it'll be pretty easy after that.
 
Some say the only dumb question is the unasked one. What do the others think??
 
sourdough44 said:
Some say the only dumb question is the unasked one. What do the others think??
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I heard a really dumb question once. Our journal club (its a professional thing) was reading a paper where the investigators used mammary stromal fibroblasts. One of the students asked where such cells came from. A glance at the Materials and Methods section of the paper revealed that they were recovered from a mammoplasty, or breast reduction surgery. One of my colleagues asked "why would anyone want to do that?" Definitely a dumb question.
 
steingar said:
I heard a really dumb question once. Our journal club (its a professional thing) was reading a paper where the investigators used mammary stromal fibroblasts. One of the students asked where such cells came from. A glance at the Materials and Methods section of the paper revealed that they were recovered from a mammoplasty, or breast reduction surgery. One of my colleagues asked "why would anyone want to do that?" Definitely a dumb question.
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Only to you.
 
So how is that different from a “California coupled approach”?

(speaking of stupid questions)
 
There are no really dumb questions, but some questions really make me go hmmmmm....

Working air ambulance and talking with a couple new pilots, right seaters, to the company, fresh out of flight school as instructors.

The nurse was talking about flights with very pregnant ladies and what the pilot is expected to do if the baby decides to not wait any longer.

One of the new right seaters was really trying to absorb it all but was a little lost, had one question: ''If there is not a baby when the flight takes off, then where did the baby come from.??''

While that got laughs from everyone, the following comment caused the class to break for lunch a half hour early....

The comment from the nurse.....''Didn't your mother talk to you about that.??''
 
Some of the best conversations stem from a dumb question.

Note that the conversations that result rarely have much to do w/ the initial question.
 
Anyhow… I really enjoyed the class.

Primarily was a review of the FOM and setting us up for success during home study phase. Instructor was really good.

Class age ranges from 25 to 63.5. The latter being a 16,000 plus direct entry Captain coming out of retirement due to the pay and wanting to fly for a bit before joining the training command.

There were 36 in class. 5 were DEC’s. We were told the next class has 42 and the one after that over 45.
 
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