Stall/spin and ground reference maneuvers

On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:30:34 PM UTC-5, John Carlyle wrote:
If this is in response to one of my posts,

Not particularly your post. Many pilots are committed to the primacy of the sight picture at turn to final.

JC wrote:
you missed the bit where I said "...AUXILIARY (ed. caps) inputs are slipstream noise, one or two glances at the ASI..."


My take is that just before entering the turn to final, slipstream noise and ASI (and yaw string) are PRIMARY reliable inputs, and that point sight picture is an unreliable input that is subject to pilot error and visual illusions.

As I got better over time at using the sight picture to estimate pattern speed, I found myself relying on it more and more. My tendency to discount and neglect the primary reliable inputs made me more dangerous.