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I have flown about 6 hours in the last two months with instructors in a Cessna 150, Cessna 170, and Cessna 172, including a nice Biennial Flight Review.
The point I was trying to make is that the Instructor at the airport voted him/herself out of a regular user of the aircraft, because he was "automatically" going to give me a full Biennal type of ride no matter what. If I messed up in flight or looked weak in my proceedures then he could say lets go out and look at steep turns, slow flight, stalls, etc, that would have been fine. That understanding would have been ok.
I was an CFII for 20 years and I can ride with someone around the pattern and tell if they are competent. It's not rocket science.
By the same token I can listen on the radio to a pilot and tell if his license should be jerked right out of his hands on landing. How many pilots have you heard like that on the radio.
But I really don't fault the instructor - its was the rules. It just did not fit into my plans for the day.
Have we beat the dog to death?
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