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PlasticPilot’s Advent Calendar – 5: The 5 grades of the CFI Landing Rating Scale

Both FAA and JAA define criterions for instructors and examiners to judge a landing. Some instructors also developped an unofficial scale, with five different grades…

1 – That wasn’t a landing; that was an arrival. Check your ELT.
2 – You going to log all of those?
3  – Average. I could do better with my eyes closed.
4 – I’ve seen better; just can’t remember when.
5 – Marvelous, ace. Couldn’t do better myself.

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  1. “You going to log all of those?”

    I laughed out loud at that one. I suppose I’m lucky no one has said it to me. :)

  2. PlasticPilot

    In the same vein comes the following exchange, (hypothetically) heard at a military airbase open to civil traffic, between a student pilot and a controller, after the student flown lots of circuits for training:

    ”TWR: NXXX, how many more landings do you plan ?”
    ”NXXX: Don’t know yet, why ?”
    ”TWR: We’re preparing your bill, it’s presently 4325789453 dollars”
    ”NXXX: The next one will be the last one”

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