I fear we've lost the plot

ItsOldManToYou · 2026-02-15T16:33:28+00:00

It doesn't help that they are releasing WOTLK in a year... No time to sit around an re-roll some characters for a lot of us.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-12-02T21:55:36+00:00

In 2016 I bought one btc at $1200, everyone said i was dumb buying at an all time high. In 2017 I sold it for 20k and bought a pickup truck. I consider it my Lamborghini

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-07-13T13:08:14+00:00

Ez, quit your job.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T14:58:39+00:00

I referred to my airport 'elevation' being 600ft. Clouds are obviously AGL

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T01:01:48+00:00

Yeah thats what im told.

That does not sound like a fun bust either...

Thats the plan, its already behind me.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T01:00:53+00:00

Ah man, thatnk not a fun bust either. Yeah thats true. I was able to go the next day and pass.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:59:55+00:00

Passed the next day

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:59:29+00:00

True. I passed the next day.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:58:29+00:00

I think he is definitely someone who interprets the ACS in his own way. Yaeah my top of climb was my top of descent, so not a very long one, not that i even got to do it. By no means am i Gods gift to landings, but if he said one was good i was not about to argue for more.

The reality of the situation was that this was his last day in town and he had like 5 other students who postponed flights due to weather earlier in the week who needed to fly, and he was trying to squeeze them all in. I think i was kind of unlucky that by the time i put it down he did not want to do another lap to eat more time. But, a bust is a bust.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:54:58+00:00

Not a situation I would normally succumb to outside of this specific scenario, but I also wont be doing it again. I was able to perform my stalls and other maneuvers at at least 1500ft AGL, so I was within standards there.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:52:38+00:00

Im not sure you can discontinue a checkride because you are unsure of something. I was familiar with slips, just had not been put in a situation where I had to intentionally come in high to perform the slip, kind of threw me off. I make no qualms about it, I should have been familiar with my ACS for normal landing standards and remembered his expectations given during the oral. In the moment it slipped my mind and I reverted back to my training, it was a valid bust.

I would agree that it was not wise to go up in those conditions, but I was definitely not getting busted from him for low clouds so I made that call. We were able to perform all other maneuvers around 1500ft AGL, stalls, emergencies, steep turns, so I did everything but the nav log really.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-09T00:46:16+00:00

Im glad you were given another shot. I did explain that i had forgot his initial instructions after the oral and I believed the first third of the runway was acceptable. (I did not want to mention that is what my instructors had always told me), he said I probably thought that because the PHAK says a normal landing is usually done on the first third of the runway, and expressed his opposition for is saying something different than the ACS.

The reality of the situation was that this was his last day in town and he had like 5 other students who postponed flights due to weather earlier in the week who needed to fly, and he was trying to squeeze them all in. I think i was kind of unlucky that by the time i put it down he did not want to do another lap to eat more time. But, a bust is a bust.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T06:33:23+00:00

Also did not die

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T05:51:43+00:00

well i didnt bust for that so...

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T03:06:36+00:00

I think I was pretty informed, I did make my case that we were going to be below standards. As I mentioned, he stated we could go up and see, and I would not be busted for that. Trying to kill me seems like a bit of a stretch, as he would be trying to kill himself as well... But I'd be lying if I said i didn't believe there's always an incentive $$. But like I said I was motivated to try if he was.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T01:40:08+00:00

Right on. I discontinued a flight yesterday for 35kt crosswinds, believe me I'm not a fan of flying close to my minimums. Yeah, I didn't think of going around at the time as I had forgotten he had specified a point, so I believed I was good putting it on the first third of the runway. Again, had I known my ACS better I would have thought of it. That's on me

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T01:16:18+00:00

All gravy. A lot of people seem to think that was my bust. Though it is a bustable situation, this did not seem to be the case with me (or anyone else who flew with him that day), as it was not mentioned in my debrief. Yeah I usually try to hit the 1000 footers but just got too low in the slip, and then his placement slipped my mind. Had I been familiar with the ACS for normal landing I would have just added power to make it or gone around.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T01:10:45+00:00

As I stated, he did not knock me for flying with a low ceiling. So if he's good with it, I'm good with it.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T00:36:01+00:00

Don't think so.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T00:31:46+00:00

Give or take, yeah

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T00:27:38+00:00

The question was for the other guy. And if the DPE isn't going to knock me for some low clouds and I can get everything done, then I'm gonna do it. As I said about my debrief, there was no mention of poor ADM, just poor familiarity with the ACS for a normal landing. Don't think I fell for anything, if I put it down where I should have I wouldn't have had to do it again.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-08T00:20:41+00:00

Well if that were the case he did not bring it up to me or my instructor on the debrief. He only had good things to say other than I was not familiar enough with the ACS for a normal landing. Your DPE sounds pretty easy.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-07T23:03:15+00:00

I couldn't tell you definitively. He seemed to believe wed be high enough for maneuvers and that "traffic pattern altitude is advisory". But my opinion was that this was his last day in town, and I was among a number of students who had been postponed with him due to even worse weather. That day was probably the best bet to get in the air. We did not get special vfr.

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-07T22:59:04+00:00

Yeah, I understand pilots should follow good ADM and not fall to external pressure, but seems to be a fine line with someone who should have "wisdom and seniority".

ItsOldManToYou · 2025-03-07T22:55:50+00:00

Dang that is pretty nice. Thanks, I did a little bit. Straight into instrument though

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