I’m not sure I agree with that extreme, either. Kind of like saying you can’t use flight planning software until after your checkride…often the result is learning how to use it improperly.
They can only make life easier if you know how to use them properly. Some people can learn on their own, but most can’t (or won’t).
It's funny that you say that since I have heard that all the driving gizmos i.e backup cameras, proximity sensors and auto drive have made kids poor drivers since they rely too heavily on these things.
I could see myself as making that mistake, if I didn't know better. Because I have a snow blower with a start button, and that just engages the starter. I believe that's SOP for some race cars, too. (Off topic, but whoever first put an electric starter on a snow blower was a good guy. Pull starting an engine at 10F is a PITA.)A young lady I know recently bought a vehicle with the push to start button. She thought the button had to be held in until the car started. She just didn't know ...
A young lady I know recently bought a vehicle with the push to start button. She thought the button had to be held in until the car started. She just didn't know ...
I bet the Ford engineer behind that was the same one, in their infinite wisdom, who placed the horn on the turn signal stalk in the 70s.
Except when it’s really cold, and you have to sit in the vehicle with the clutch pedal to the floor because the gear oil in the transmission is solid, and even in neutral it moves when you release the clutch.
*chuckles* sounds like my ATP checkride, with non-accumulator props on the clap trap, 2 days before my written was to expire. It's not hyperbole in the least to say my left knee was involved in finishing that checkride in lieu of a mx discontinuance and a 5AMU fee to re-take it.
….with ‘three on the tree’!
Drove one of those stupid vehicles once. I had borrowed it for an errand and suddenly needed to use the horn right pronto. Hands flying over every surface of the steering wheel to no avail I wound up shouting so hard my chest and lungs hurt for a full day.
There were countless accidents in Florida when they put the high beam switch on the turn signal stalk as countless drivers got their feet caught in the steering wheel.
You misspelled “Alabama”
Does ones driving instructor/school get notified whenever a person gets involved in an accident? No one else is responsible for other's actions. Is a CFI/DPE responsible for that pilot for life!?
Is a training course required to get a drivers license?
That seems painfully short sighted. Nobody gets better without feedback. Not athletes, not coaches, not pilots, not surgeons and not teachers.
I wouldn’t say “notified,” but they may be included in an investigation.
I extended student pilot’s ninety day solo for another instructor who was not available.
I just can't imagine what the heck a CFI/DPE is supposed to do to help a pilot after they get out of the plane and close the door?
Indeed. Taking this to the macro point, the fear of material repercussions, even if imagined, appears a necessary deterrence to moral hazard in this space.
Like so many.
Formal notification is possible. It could be an inivitation to schedule a 49 U.S.C. 44709(a) aka 709 reexamination within 15 days if the FAA believes the incident or accident was triggered by indadequate training or testing.
Her YouTube channel has videos of her receiving flight instruction. Knowing what she was flying, the date, and from where it probably wouldn't be hard to figure it out if they really wanted to.
