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Originally Posted by BajtheJino  Maybe he didn't like being interrogated?
Operating Procedures for seeding clouds-fly into cloud, release stuff. Exit cloud. Repeat.
I know a lot of 'tards that flight instruct, fly airliners, light twins and everything in between that don't remember a lot of what they've learned. I dumped all the useless CFI reg's and junk a long time ago. Does that make my company "shady". Don't rush to judge because they don't meet your standards. |
Thanks for assuming I "interrogated" him.
We actually had a friendly conversation off and on for a couple hours at my drop zone between loads of skydivers I was flying.
The reason I say I wasn't impressed by him has nothing to do with his knowledge of cloud seeding. In fact, we didn't even talk specifics of cloud seeding very much.
What I didn't like were some comments he made about basic flying knowledge. He didn't seem to have a solid understanding of how manifold pressure works in a constant speed prop system. This came about because of our discussion of the DZ's operating procedures for our C-182.
He talked about logging time in what I consider to be very shady ways...things like two flight instructors flying together and logging dual given/received just so they could both get multi time, even though no instruction was taking place. Or worse yet, him giving instruction on a cross country trip, falling asleep, and telling the trainee to wake him up when they were 30 miles from their destination. I don't consider that to be a wise operating procedure.
He held flight instructor certificates and we talked about instructing for a while, and frankly he didn't sound like he knew what he was doing when it came to teaching. Again, I'm talking about basic concepts like staying coordinated.
He said he'd been investigated by the FAA for something, and it's a very long story, but I can tell you beyond a doubt that the facts of the story didn't make any sense to me. He claimed the FAA's only problem with him was that he hadn't declared an emergency after several instrument failures in IMC, when to me it sounded like he exercised poor judgement at multiple levels.
He also told me he'd gone through ground school at an *airline* flying 1900s out of Wichita, KS, but quit when they sprung a $15,000 training contract on him at the end of ground school. I'm not aware of any regional airlines with training bases in Wichita. When I asked him what the name of the airline was, he couldn't remember. Does that not sound slightly shady, to forget the name of an airline whose ground school you supposedly went through only a few years ago?
Oh, and I forgot to mention this guy ultimately left flying because even though he had "thousands" of hours of Cessna 340 time, he found he could make more money throwing garbage. That's right...he left flying to become one of those guys who dumps garbage cans in to the back of a garbage truck. Does that not seem a bit odd?
Now, back to the original question. Anyone know how good or bad Weather Mod is? Good quality time? Good experience?