"open source" video project for glider ratings

On 11/23/2010 1:28 PM, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 11/23/2010 12:49 PM, bildan wrote:

However, I don't think a video will ever replace a real live flight
instructor even with Condor. If the student is doing something wrong,
the video can't analyze the student's performance and offer a critique.

Could a real, live instructor snow bound in Boulder have his student
(snow bound in Fort Collins) fly Condor, while the instructor's monitor
displays the student's flight, and talk to the student while he's doing
it? All on his computer?

I imagine him "flying" with two or three students at once, or the other
students "going along for the ride" while he instructs one of them.

Here's a fun idea: Tom Knauff gives intensive ridge running instruction,
in the middle of the worst winter storm Pennsylvania has ever seen, to a
pilot in Florida, using Condor and the internet. Tom gets some income,
the pilot gets some great instruction, and is 96% up to speed before he
even gets to the ridge next April.

Or maybe a Minden wave flight between 20,000 and 30,000 with Gordon or Jim?

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