CFIs: THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE!

gatt wrote:

It's important not to confuse your students. Using correct terminology
and
language is important to that end. Please remain vigilante. ;

If your CFI shouts "take off power" make you dump the flaps first!

Hilton

"tom418" wrote in message
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Be careful when flying in CLOSE proximity to other aircraft

Lest you have a near miss.

"Nathan Gilliatt" wrote in message
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Upon soft-field touchdown, the pilot should call out "three on the
green."

But mind the power lines near the fairway, or things could get rough.

If you're landing on a fairway, you should call out "fore green!"

-c

IRregardless? Yes, I know it's (lately) in the dictionary, but so are a
lot of barbarisms.

John Lowry
Flight Physics

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Irregardless, you shouldn't loose your concentration.

"John T Lowry" wrote in message
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IRregardless? Yes, I know it's (lately) in the dictionary, but so are a
lot of barbarisms.


You ain't gettin the point of this thread, are ya?

Anyway, the dictionary is no authority on grammar. It is more like a
newspaper; it reports common usage, but rarely passes judgment on what is
proper.

I get it, I just hadn't gotten around to telling about my first
instructor. I had trouble with landings because on short approach he
kept telling me "Just keep it in there!" I took that to mean (I'm
somewhat literal-minded) to keep the controls right where they were.
What he actually meant was to manipulate the controls as needed to keep
the attitude and airspeed of the airplane right where they were.

Actually, with the recent "whatever" generation, I've given up on the
entire "proper language" issue. Mrs. Malaprop must have been VERY
fertile. Though I admit I still get a bit exercised over the gaffes on
TV; it seems they go out of their way to hire illiterates, especially
for writing the crawl along the lower portion of the screen.

John Lowry
Flight Physics

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"John T Lowry" wrote in message
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IRregardless? Yes, I know it's (lately) in the dictionary, but so are
a
lot of barbarisms.


You ain't gettin the point of this thread, are ya?

Anyway, the dictionary is no authority on grammar. It is more like a
newspaper; it reports common usage, but rarely passes judgment on what
is
proper.

John T Lowry wrote:
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Though I admit I still get a bit exercised over the gaffes on
TV; it seems they go out of their way to hire illiterates, especially

for writing the crawl along the lower portion of the screen.


Our local newscasters are the worst. You can tell as soon as they
depart from the script on the teleprompter to make insightful comments
on the story. They just start stringing a bunch of words together and
in their quest to sound knowledgable (and to fill 10 seconds), they
often end up saying the opposite of what they intended to say.

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:51:01 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:



When we were doing touch and goes during a complex checkout yesterday we had
an incident right after touchdown because of a blue heron in our immediate
path. The CFI said "to your detriment you already had the flaps at one
notch...", which confused me.

Later, he pulled the power on me approaching the pattern. During the
debrief he said "You see what happened? You forgot to do your third GUMPs
check but to your detriment you remembered to do it on final." To my
detriment I remembered to do one last GUMP check? I think he meant to my
CREDIT. (Unless there's some reason you wouldn't want a notch of flaps in
an Arrow II during short-field TnGs or wouldn't want to do the last "three
green, prop forward" before touchdown.) I might have gone home thinking he
was telling me it's incorrect to have a notch of flaps had it not been for
his later mistake.

My instrument instructor used to like to say, in reference to the DE, "one
of his pet peeves is to..." "One of his pet peeves is pattern B." If his
pet peeve is Pattern B, why are we spending so much time on it? "His pet
peeve is to keep you in a holding pattern." Apparently, she believes that
"pet peeve" means "things he likes to do." Entirely excusable, but another
example of language inaccuracy which might be potentially counterproductive.

It's important not to confuse your students. Using correct terminology and
language is important to that end. Please remain vigilante. ;

-c


Welkome to Americuh in the twenty-fihrst centry.

I work on computers. I have this problem every damn day. When I hear
other techs ask me to bring things down to their level, I cringe.
Would a heart surgeon ask a PA to simplify his explanation of blood
pressure's importance during a valve replacement? No.

There is a major bout of anti-intellectualism going on right now
that's the cause of the destruction of English.

-Proton, who got a D in English....

"What-chu readin' for?"

On 26 Jan 2005 07:41:28 -0800, wrote:

Wish I could explain my self more clearly.

I wish I hadn't gotten that D in English..... =(

" wrote:

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

That doesn't mean that they aren't embarrassed. Back when I played coffeehouses
and bars, I learned to give no signs when I missed a chord. If I didn't grimace,
most of the people in the audience never knew I screwed up -- especially when I
played bars ;-)

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.