As a flight instructor I can try to save people from themselves.
In a previous post I alluded to her, seemingly not to wanting to, BE in command of an airplane, but to be SEEN as being in command. Those are two entirely different things. She was a poser, literally posing as a pilot.She selectively chose what to be competent at. She was apparently a successful businessperson, but chose not to take driving or flying seriously. She was going to get someone killed running red lights or playing with a broken AP, instead of reading her POH and AP manual, sooner or later. She didn't WANT to understand anything more than she knew about piloting. If she wanted to be solid she would have had a CFI sitting right seat instead of her dad. It wasn't like she couldn't afford more training. She knew exactly what she was doing, we just don't like it. We only see the vidoes she shared, not the ones where she might have been properly corrected. She didn't like being corrected, not even by her father. She just wanted the AP to do its dang job, so she could catch Stevie in likes! But Stevie hand flew a c140 from California to Osh Kosh.
Hillarious. I'm not resigning from anything. Do what you must to make yourself feel good. But do know, it's for you. People have free will. You have no control over what they do with the information you share. You can only hope your efforts aren't in vain. Will some heed your wisdom, sure, but you must resign yourself to the fact, that there are those like Jenny, who won't. Speaking of Hazardous Attitudes Jenny had a couple.
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Resignation: the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.
I don't think she had the self-awareness or the forethought to do that.
Funny thing about that...in the Coast Guard we're FINALLY catching up to the 21st century and abandoning paper charts. Now don't get me wrong, I love the art of navigation. I'm a certified Navigator and can do celestial navigation. But the usefulness of paper charts is long gone. When we first started making the transition, I had a few guys ask me "well, what if the chartplotter fails?" I tell them "Seaman's Eye or turn west. You'll hit land eventually."
This is the most reasonable explanation I've heard on the matter! Tragic ending still, but it cleans up her image a bit.I too have thought that some (or maybe all) of her antics have been manufactured drama in the hopes of getting likes and clicks. And that leads me to another hypothesis that y'all can shoot down and flame me over. (this is the internet
Suppose most of this HAS been manufactured drama, and we know she's been riding this "autpilot bad" thing for a while. Oh no, what's it doing? Where's it taking me? Whatever. But, this line of videos was coming to an end, she was headed to the avionics shop for a new autopilot. No more milking vids on autopilot bad.
So, maybe she wanted to make that last flight to the avionics shop very dramatic. Maybe those altitude excursions towards the middle of the flight weren't bad autopilot, or even bad piloting. Maybe she was doing that on purpose, and somehow either broke the airplane or found herself in an unusual attitude that she couldn't recover from.
Yeah, I have an active imagination, but at least someone else must have had this thought.
Roast away!
You sound like my current CFI. I hope to be as good at it as you and him. I really do. I don't want my students to feel I didn't give them everything I had for them to succeed.
There’s a difference between ignorance and ignorant indifference. I see far more pilots demonstrating the latter than I do the former.
There's a British ferry pilot I like to watch occasionally. Guido Warnecke is his channel name. His videos are almost mundane enough to put you to sleep...the kind of thing only real pilots might appreciate. I find great pleasure in watching him handle various different aircraft especially since I'm going for my Instrument certification now. Most all his videos are in IFR.
So we should be expecting an episode from you where you strut it in lululemons?
Don't encourage him. For the sake of all humanity.
You do have an imagination and I can see some people believing this, but like others have said, I think we were seeing it like it really was. Mind blowing as it may seem.I too have thought that some (or maybe all) of her antics have been manufactured drama in the hopes of getting likes and clicks. And that leads me to another hypothesis that y'all can shoot down and flame me over. (this is the internet
This is the way many pilots do it. Oops I didn’t know it. Let me learn it. Now go out and use it.
Oh, God, NO! Step away from the GoPro!!!
I'm in IFR training now as well. Thanks for bringing this guy to my attention!
I'm pretty sure Guido is German. He spent a lot of time in South Africa too.
Yeah, but are you willing to shave your legs?
I tried that. Things really went south.
Guido is a German who became an American citizen several years ago. I love his older, more plentiful videos. Great series in ferrying a Mooney. The man makes using checklists look like an art form,
I have the Sporty’s course. And I agree. The most recent Garmin AP checklists I’ve seen don’t even have overcoming as part of the pre-flight check and warn not to try to overcome in flight. I’ve dropped that part even from APs which include it. Problem is that when you fight the trim, all you are doing is making the AP roll the trim in the opposite direction, making it worse, so when you finally get around to pulling the breaker, you are fighting a waaaaay out of trim condition.
I think the point is, you can do the best you can to instill the skills and knowledge, but in the end, they are on their own and in their own hands.
True but she had 400hrs..also she had one ipad w FF, two garmin products that 430 and another gps I saw as well, a magnetic compass, a heading indicator and at least one iphone (android users don't make these mistakes) lol.
Her lack of airmanship and general situational awareness is simply incomprehensible to me. Back in the day when I was working on my Private Pilot cert, I did all of the X/C's with a precessing DG, one VOR, and a Sectional across relatively featureless Lower Alabama, FLA, and GA without issue. It ain't that hard. With all the tools she had at her disposal it's child's play.
she failed at both
I used to know a pilot whose dad bought her a portable LORAN to help find her way as a student pilot. She did all of her solo cross countries for Private and Commercial within the Approach cControl airspace of a major metropolitan airport so that when (not if) she got lost, she could call for vectors.
I wonder if she would have done better without. As her dad pointed out- they were right over I-40. She had a 50/50 shot at picking correctly
My wife's instructor told her no GPS use (not that we owned one at this point) while learning. The plane she learned in did have an old clunky VOR-DME RNAV in it. I had showed my wife how to look up the RNAV coords of the destination airport in the brown book and put them into the system. She did that one time with the instructor and he then restated the restriction NO RNAV PERIOD.
