TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

摘要

I WAS CHIEF FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR AT A BUSY FLIGHT SCHOOL IN Scottsdale, Arizona. A staff instructor asked me if I would fly with a man who wanted to get back into flying after several years off. The rusty pilot had flown with two of our instructors-and they would not sign him off for solo flight. He was upset and demanded to fly with the chief flight instructor: me. I told the pilot to plan a flight from the Scottsdale Airport (SDL) to Falcon Field (FFZ) in Mesa, about 20 miles away. A few hours later when we met for the flight, I asked him to tell me the direction we would fly to Falcon Field. He pointed to the northeast. Wrong. Falcon Field is southeast of the Scottsdale Airport. I gave him a heading that would take us to Falcon Field, and we had a satisfactory departure in a Cessna 172. En route, I reminded him to listen to the Falcon Field ATIS and we learned they were using Runway 22L and 22R.