Crash one wrote:A few years ago, reval flight, the instructor said he wouldn’t send me solo.
With a list of specific items, presumably? That you then discussed rationally and as openly as you could?
If an instructor said that to me, it would give me great pause for thought, and if I genuinely disagreed with any of it, the next thing I would do is book a session with the CFI and get a second opinion. I absolutely would not disregard it, since either my flying is not what I imagine it to be, or that instructor needs some retraining, and either of those is a serious matter.
Obviously, you may be a sky god and the instructor in question a complete dipstick, but basing your view of that assessment on the fact that you
then flew my own taildragger home to a grass strip where I am considered perfectly safe!
... seems a little, shall we say, subjective?
It is insulting
It is not insulting. It is a judgement, which may have been reasonable or unreasonable. It's very much the sort of judgement that should be taken seriously.
and it’s not nice.
If we all disregarded comments that we felt were 'not nice', we would never learn anything.
Oh wait, this is the Flyer Forum....