"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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What happened to 'slow flight', 'ground reference maneuvers',
and 'traffic pattern' instruction and practice?


A syllabus is all well and good, but I always allow my students to fly
whatever portion of a flight they are capable of, and to learn the maximum from
each flight. Last time I checked, every flight unavoidably includes at least
one takeoff, one landing, and associated pattern work; so introduction to TO,
landing & pattern starts with the first lesson.

I have done a lot of commercial glider rides, which always included stick
time if the passenger was willing. I have even had (once or twice) a totally
inexperienced passenger do a successful pattern all the way to touchdown.

Vaughn