"Journeyman" wrote in message
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In article et,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

The difference is in the force of impact on your body if something
you
didn't quite understand catches up to you :-))
In a classroom; you make a mistake; you try it agin. Make a mistake
in
an airplane; you might not get a second chance!
Comparing flying to a classroom only learned profession is a bad
analogy.

Dudley, I completely agree with your basic point: downtime is
essential
for really learning a subject. It takes time for the synapses to
rewire
themselves.

But, as a matter of logic, I must take issue with your paragraph
above.
If anything, flying is like writing a calculus exam while dribbling a
basketball. If cramming for academic exams doesn't work in the long
term, then neither will cramming for academic exam while dribbling the
basketball.

IOW, being on a desktop simplifies the problem. If the reduced
problem
is still unsolvable, we can conclude the harder problem is probably
unsolvable too. This supports your position. OTOH, reversing it
would
not work.

A 40-hour week-long academic course is not like a 13-week 3-hour
course.
The former is like trying to drink from a firehose. A lot of the
information splatters all over the place. It can only be worse in the
real-time environment of an airplane.

(OTOH, to be fair to Jim Fisher, you do acknowledge that what really
matters is what you do afterwards, which is one of his main points).


Morris

I'm having trouble with your analogy.

The only point I was making was that in an airplane, sometimes you don't
get a second chance to do something which is true; as the 32 funerals I
have attended during my aviation career for pilots who didn't get that
second chance will clearly attest.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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