A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Kenny Keller in which two speakers (an instructor and another pilot) emphasize sticking to basic safety principles in flight instruction, adopting conservative, methodical airmanship, and learning selectively from many instructors while ultimately exercising pilot-in-command judgment. The exchange stresses that common-sense decisions and conservative choices preserve safety.
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It's about sticking to the basics, man, and being knowledgeable. And another thing I can tell you, you know, moving forward, is it's about the basics, you know, And I'll keep preaching that to you. That's what I do, you know, I'm a basic instructor, and I preach the basic safety stuff. And that's, you know, what keeps us alive. It's the good safety, general rules and general aerodynamics and emergencies and things that we learn and sticking to them and sticking to what we know is right.
Yeah, yeah. I'm the same way. I mean, I'm a little more conservative. When I took my checkride for a commercial, he was. He's kind of the opposite. And he was like, pushing me. You got to push it to the limit, you know, you got to know where to go, when not to go, you know?
Right.
Why would you do that to yourself? You know, because weather can change like that, especially being around an ocean, you know, anything can happen.
Absolutely. You know, being conservative is the only way to be, you know, slow, smooth, methodical. Conservative. Absolutely. I mean, I don't know. And I approach. Everything about the way I fly is conservative and the way I teach is conservative. And that's just me, you know, That's.
I agree with it. I don't. I don't see why pushing it, you know, because somebody needs to get somewhere, you know, they can get there some else somehow. Else, you know, I mean, you don't need to do it.
Exactly. Exactly. It's never worth getting killed over. No, it's never. It's never worth getting killed over.
Yeah, I kind of took that with a grain of salt and just kind of thinking my own way. And I mean, a lot from different people. You learn a lot from different people, but then you kind of got to feed through what you want to take from them and what you don't want to take.
And that's why they call it pilot in command, you know, and you're right, and I like that you said that. You know, you take what you've learned. Because one thing I want to tell you, too, is. And I will say is I've learned from everybody. I've flown with all the different instructors, the trainers, the students. What's fun about this is you're always learning something new. And sometimes you'll learn something new that you may or may not want to apply in your own flying, but at least it gives you new thought and it gives you to go, you know, I've never done it that way, but at first your instinct might go, I don't think I like that idea. But then maybe you'll try it and go, you know what? I think I like that. So that's what I've always done. You take what's right for you. You are pilot in command, and you're going to instill those pilot in command values in the people that you're training, and you're going to hopefully train them to make good, conservative decisions and use their brain. Because a lot of this stuff is common sense, too. A lot of things that we'll sit and talk about. There isn't a right or wrong. It's a lot of. It's kind of. Some things are common sense, so.
