Flight Review with CFI Leah Froehlich

[@MichaelWilliamsms]

Quando ti rendi conto che la tua giornata non sarebbe stata così divertente senza questo video. Grazie, internet✨

[@susansticazsky9787]

Power on stall below 2000?

[@erickwebb1]

Climbed to 2,000’ before attempting to initiate the stall. I’m very familiar with this aircraft and how it behaves in a power on stall (in that it doesn’t really lose altitude, just kind of gets mushy)

[@Captndarty]

Scared?

[@edcew8236]

Clear the air, sure. But does not a steep turn clear the air? Clearing turns do not have to be in alternate directions...

[@snowman100]

Don't forget to DECLARE, 121.5... Mayday Mayday, squawk 7700.. on your emergency landing, we need a way to find Leah 😂

[@R160A]

Time permitting of course

[@erickwebb1]

What about finding me?

[@snowman100]

@@erickwebb1 eh, you'll be doing push ups. Lol

[@erickwebb1]

@@snowman100 I still am…😂

[@billlyl3725]

Found this difficult to watch. Seemed more like a strained flirting episode than a BFR

[@maayans1535]

couldn't agree more

[@maayans1535]

Might be the least engaged CFI out there. Not even more effort in adding anything to the debrief,

[@erickwebb1]

@@maayans1535 not everything was shown on camera for the sake of time

[@maayans1535]

@@erickwebb1 what's the point of making a video about a flight review if the things emphasized the most are not related to the flight review? I think this causes more damage than benefit. CFIs are aviation professionals and it does them a disservice to portray them in such an unprofessional way.

[@DC144YHVH]

If this was a checkride, he'd have failed on a few thongs, yet somehow he passed a flight review. And we wonder why GA is struggling.

[@erickwebb1]

The whole point of the review is to review skills, refresh them, retrain if necessary, and learn. Which is exactly what happened. The struggle in GA (aside from the financial cost) is people getting an air of superiority about “inferior” pilots and talking down to those that don’t meet their expectations of perfection. Instead of teachable moments, mistakes have become opportunities to pile on and belittle. Hope you’re able to work on fixing that.

[@edcew8236]

There's so much more to be done on a flight review than repeating certificate maneuvers, lots of things not in the books. Why limit your client to ACS? And there's lots of such curricula out there. Come fly with me in Savannah after I finish recovering from surgery...

[@DanFrederiksen]

Is there perhaps a disconnect between training and actual flying? one of the first things I was asked to do was hold a slow fixed speed and a certain altitude in high angle of attack with flaps. I guess you learn to work the controls but that has nothing to do with flying. That would never be used so why are we doing that instead of learning actual flying. Holding cramped technical exercises instead of actual flying. Correct me if I'm wrong but a given aircraft model has typical speeds you naturally fly like Vy on take off and the various cruise speeds where you are comfortable setting the engine. You never hold a low set speed in high AOA. That would be an airshow thing perhaps. If what you do in training is strictly different from any real world flying then maybe convention should be questioned. We shouldn't learn an instructor's particular micromanagement idiosyncrasies either. Imagine if you were forced to learn Jim Furyk's golf swing in details. Only the overarching rules should be taught, the instructor should butt out otherwise. And rather than get annoyed by a clueless student, a student doesn't fly until he can fly in a simulator. Until he can land with ease like a young pro. Not a Sully. Because rivers are not runways. From a distance they might look similar to the untrained eye but they are quite different. Rookie mistake. The first lesson of flying is that a plane is foremost a glider and stall is not your friend. Sully's plane had a 17:1 glide ratio. He glided twice the distance he needed to return. And that should be explicitly taught because one could be forgiven for not realizing that on your own when flying a winged tractor like a C172. Whereas a Phoenix U-15 would barely notice if you turned the engine off. Fewer pilots would die if they had awareness of the significance of glide ratio. They wouldn't buy terrible planes like a C172 or Bonanza.