At 22:42 26 September 2005, Marc Ramsey wrote:
Mark Dickson wrote:
Easy to throw stones, I know. But Chuck, this is
the
most ridiculous thing I've heard. No Daily Inspection
and then no pre-flight checks? We don't need lessons
in airbrakeless landings, just a good grounding in
the basics. Caracole may have taught good soaring
but it looks like they skimped on the most basic points
of airmanship.

So, I guess we can assume that you have never, ever,
missed a checklist
item, and have never made any other mistakes while
engaged in aviation.
My hat is off to you! For the rest of us, should
we train on the
assumption that we always follow procedures perfectly
and needn't
consider what to do if we don't, or assume we are human,
screw up every
once in a while, and may therefore need to resort to
a backup procedure?

Marc


This isn't missing an item, this is not doing any checks.
Hopefully no-one takes off without doing any checks
(obviously they do). There is no need to practice
landing without airbrakes, although being proficient
at side-slipping is useful.