On Friday, March 8, 2013 3:33:44 PM UTC-5, gliderpilotGR wrote:
Don't know what article is about, but let me second your concern over primacy issues (and bad habits too) that may be caused by such endless hours of unsupervised practice. Should be forbidden for low time pilots, IMHO. In any enviroment other than a very well focused training organisation, trouble in the making





regards,



gliderpilotGR

It's an article extolling the virtues of Condor for ab initio training. By the end of the article he says:

"So try to imagine the reaction, of those invested in the status quo, to this assertion:

I believe, given the proper resources, candidates for private and commerial pilot certificates with glider category ratings, could entirely manage their own flight-training development, and in large part, teach themselves to fly.

I believe they can and should be empowered to do that."

FWIW, I'm not an instructor and I'm not "invested" here. Just simply wondering if I'm the only one that's a little queasy at this prospect.

Also fwiw, I had a great time learning to fly RC using Phoenix. I also managed to crash a couple of real models really hard even after a lot of sim time, in no small part because the sim does not capture all of the flying characteristics of real models nor the characteristics of real weather.

T8