The Differences Between PPLicensing And Learning

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:13:27 -0500, WJRFlyBoy
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:46:14 -0500, Roger wrote:

snip for brevity

It's a bit more complex figuring out the reasoning though.
There are many reasons for the rate peaking in this range.

Let me give you one I am intimately familiar with. Strength training
injuries.

It is customary for newbies to go thru several phases of experience (in
most any new learning paradigm)and related performance.

As a rough analogy "to me" it's not all that bad although I've never
noticed it quite that way in weight training. Then again it probably
depends on the subject's goal(s), age group, body type, and
personality. Then again we do agree pretty much on numbers 3, 4 and
5.

This would be an ideal list for adult ice skaters be it hockey or
figure skating.

1) Fear - performance poor
2) Less fear - performance moderate
3) Comfort - performance gains
4) Relaxed comfort - performance excellence
5) Carelessness, lack of fear, lack of details - injury

In #5 I'd look at it in a more general way such as attitudes, however
both get us to the same point. These are the same attitudes that get
pilots and drivers in trouble. Invulnerability, antiauthoritarian are
two that come to mind. IOW It always happens to the other guy, not me,
and don't tell me how to do things, I've done it this way for years,
or the rules are for other people. I often see men working out in a
manner that is likely to cause injury and unless they are dedicated
enough to be working with a personal trainer do not want to hear any
suggestions from anyone and that includes the pros. At best they
might defer to the pro, but revert back to their way as soon as the
pro leaves.
Of course the ones dedicated enough to be working with a personal
trainer aren't usually the ones getting into trouble unless they are
really pushing such as the RUSSIAN power lifter whose leg broke on a
lift.


This progression to digression is common to many complex tasks. The next
would be auto racing.

In flying the student may or may not have fear to start, but they
depend on the instructor and defer to their way of doing things.

Even after leaving the nest with their newly minted PPL they still
tend to defer to that instruction. Once out on their own they enter a
new learning curve and start developing more confidence. As time
builds some become complacent in their confidence. It's now in an area
where the invulnerability and antiauthoritarian attitudes coupled with
complacency rear their ugly heads.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com