Flight training proficiency can't be gained without first learning procedures and maneuvers. [Credit: Adobe Stock]
Key Takeaways:
A flight student with over 40 logged hours across multiple instructors and logbooks consistently lacked fundamental knowledge and critical flying skills necessary for solo flight.
The student demonstrated a dangerous disregard for safety, culminating in intentionally crossing an active runway against CFI instruction and forcing another aircraft to go around, exhibiting hazardous attitudes.
The CFI dismissed the student, highlighting that logged flight hours do not guarantee proficiency or safe operational judgment, especially when compounded by poor habits and dangerous behavior.
My flight student was anxious to solo. He had logged 20 hours a few years earlier and left that logbook at his parent’s home in another state, so he didn’t have access to it.
In his current logbook he had about 20 hours logged as well, but still no solo.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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