Ground Track Maneuvers?

On Jul 7, 9:46*pm, Mike Rhodes wrote:

*Distractions (as mentioned by Johnson) would not encourage a pilot to pull on the
yoke to tighten the turn at such an inopportune time.

You're on base, banking to final, and you see a flock of geese ahead
of you. An airline pilot I know actually failed his CFI checkride for
not flying straight through the geese, accepting the bird strike(s)
and landing the airplane rather than acting on his instinct, which was
to pull up and "hop" the airplane over the flock.

Ground track maneuvers do require extra coordination, but none of it
useful during flight by most any pilot.

I do a lot of photo flights...most recently I was doing turns around a
point at 600' over a tool factory one mile off the end of PDX 28R, as
slow as possible to maximize the photographer's shooting time for each
orbit.

All sorts of other conceivable possibilities arise; it's not the
flight instructor's job to teach you what you want to learn, but ALL
of the fundamental skills of flying, and ground reference/track
maneuvers certainly have their place, if for no other reason than
teaching wind correction, rudder coordination and basic stick and
rudder skills.