plane hits car

[C]

I have gone against the opinion of my instructor a couple of times. At the end of the day if I'm in control I won't do something that I don't feel comfortable doing. Landing long at EGGP is a bit different to planting it down a couple of hundred feet short of the runway. The displaced threshold isn't available landing distance.

That was an example, not a comparison! Solo, as opposed to dual, brings a different perspective too, pertinent to this incident.

If this was how his instructor was teaching him to land, then the instructor was doing it wrong!

To quote the great Hercule Poirot, exactement, mon ami. A student can't be criticised if he is doing what he's been taught. Most students will do exactly what their instructor teaches them.

It's being said that this was at the end of his first solo cross country, so what I suspect actually happened was that the student messed up the approach but just wanted to get it down (and he would have done if there headn't been a car in the way )

So was he fit to be sent on his solo cross country?

[alrot]

there's something I got to say

[DaveSims]

In the airport world, which I work in, runway thresholds get displaced for a reason.  However I have seen plenty of pilots that will always shoot for the end of the pavement, and the result is...

[jetprop]

Guess what the add on the side was for me?

An SUV add....

[beaky]

[quote] there's something I got to say

[C]

So the pilot has no excuse, really.

Trainee. Massive excuse. You can have the potential to be a brilliant pilot, but if you're badly trained/taught you'll be a bad pilot. If he was that incompetent (whether the incompetance was a result of poor training or lack of ability is another question) he shouldn't have been allowed to fly solo. End of. Whoever was responsible for his training, and whoever authorised him to fly solo has very difficult question to answer.