Irv Lee wrote:...an experienced UK cri threatening to terminate a session before taxi because the pilot leaned to keep the plugs cleaner during taxi. I hear he threatened to jump out if the mixture was touched again before shutdown. Not sure how that would work well in the air, perhaps he hadn't heard of it being used in the air too.
Dear god...
Just out of interest, what kind of continuous professional development, if any, is in place for instructors, that would give even a fighting chance of weeding out this sort of gross ignorance?
It's not like if you lean properly for taxying, you're not going to notice if you forget to push it rich again, and then open the throttle for take off.
Well... one would hope not... but if you have even one brain cell, you're really not going to do that too many times.