"Use One Trip To Adjust Somebody's Attitude" | Tug Wilson (In-Person Teaser) 

This reminds me of my commercial pilot training, had several attitude adjustment talks with my instructor, an then get told prior to my multi instrument rating by instructor that I better pray for a miracle to pass single pilot and end up with a flawless flight test🤣 my hands weren't the problem it was my mouth 🤣🤣 43 now and was 17 then so life has kicked a few times since then.

The Confessions book that Tug wrote had me in tears, so funny and a great insight to flying in the RAF

That makes a lot of sense. I went through US Navy Nuclear Power training, and there’s a similar attitude flush out that’s built into the program. A lot of people come through having aced every physics and engineering exam, or it’s chemistry, or electromagnetism or something. Some are still humble, but plenty of people aren’t awed by their responsibilities operating a nuclear reactor at sea on a combat mission, and you absolutely have to flush that out during training, and sometimes the written tests don’t do that. So you make them answer observational questions on the spot, explain what that valve does and why. They don’t have to know, but if they make it up or brush it off, that’s a hard mark. If you give them a watch job and they make up what they signed off, that’s a mark and a writeup. The logs in particular are legal documents, and you can say “I knocked that trash can over, you didn’t notice it or fix it, and wrote down all normal”, that’s a mark and a number of marks can get you kicked out of the program with very little recourse. The guys who thought they were the dumbest, if they focused, were better people at the end and more trustworthy than the people for whom academics came naturally and never had a real challenge. And I say that as someone who got good grades and had moments of being a bit daft. You learn to catch yourself so others trust you implicitly because they have to.

Tug wrote a cracking book......fascinating guy. Thanks Mike! Best Dave

I can relate to this. Well said. Its how it has to be !

Band of brothers. What a great way to put it

Spotted this an hour ago been looking forward to it 👍

This is a great lesson for life as well. Always be humble and willing to learn.

Always enjoy hearing Tug! I hope you have some upcoming interviews with him!

Nice to hear something more gritty in these interviews....!

Paused just to ask, how does that hanger smell? I can't be the only person to wonder?

Methinks of George Beurling.

I wonder what happened to that student where he is now?

On the one hand, it seems so sad that an excellent pilot was lost. On the other hand... well, no loss really. I wonder if that taught him some humility and fixed his attitude, or if he went on to be some sort of sociopathic scumbag in industry.

In every career that draws from the societal pool, you’ll eventually draw in a bottom-feeder.

Better off being the grey man who blends in, likeable, quietly efficient but gets the occasional thing wrong as opposed to the top of the class twat who knows it. I'd rather go into battle with the guy who finished bottom of the class and had to earn it the hard way and was someone I'd walk over glass for.

Hmm, great pilot kicked because you didn't like his personality or he was flying better than the instructors. Hazing at its finest, "you don't act like we do"