I was 18 and had just over 200 hours when I started instructing. The first hundred hours or so were probably not very beneficial to my students. Knowing this, my boss gave me his students at various phases of training before letting me loose on new people. Had I been 30 with 1000 hours, it would have been much the same. For most of us, teaching is not natural no matter how much experience we have. Now most of my clothes are older than 18 and I have tens of thousands of hours. Last year I started teaching again. I was as lost as that 18yo kid thirty-five years ago. Now I am settling into the job once again. Maturity is a state of mind. And a mature mind can compensate for a lack of experience.
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Conversely, an immature mind can compensate for almost endless experience to the extent you think they have none! 
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Given that EC- isn’t an American code, I some how doubt they will. 
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I don’t know. Long is the reach and dark the purpose of the FAA. (Looks around nervously) 
1992 i found such a crack in a 152. 1993 I worked for a company that had 12 150 Aerobats. They had beefed up new build brackets becsuse they had found several cracks.
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My school had accelerated stalls on the curriculum for the 182s as part of CFI training leading up to the checkride. Not that they practiced them constantly, but the student had to be able to demonstrate one on the checkride, so each CFI student did at least one, maybe two. My instructor had me do mine while I was watching the tail of the aircraft through the rear window.
I’ve never seen the tail of a Cessna bend in that exact manner, nor do I care to again. 
To my knowledge they never had any cracks form, but knowing what some of the inspections were like I wouldn’t have a lot of confidence they’d be noticed right away either.
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That is a point I am trying to hammer into my bosses’ heads. It doesn’t matter how good the lesson plans are, or how skilled the person you hand them to is. Teaching is an entire separate discipline that you also have to be exceptional at when you are talking about training people in things that can get people killed. So of course, the plan is to bleed us (the experienced instructors) dry writing the lesson plans, and then bring in whatever hacks they can find who are only marginally competent and have them teach as a cost savings. What could possibly go wrong here?
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