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"Mike Isaksen" wrote:
This thread reminds me of a CFI friend who raved about his new student following a first lesson. .... That little story reminds me of the definition of anecdotal evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence |
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Mxsmanic,
It's not necessary in most cases. yes, it is. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Mike Isaksen writes:
This thread reminds me of a CFI friend who raved about his new student following a first lesson. The student ace'd the written and his years of MS sim flying made him really smooth. There was no doubt he'd solo fast. After the second flight my friend complained that the student wasn't looking outside enough and had no feel for the controls. Following the third flight, during a portion of which he covered the panel with the sectional, my friend came back wondering if the student would even make it to solo. In the end the student did ok and made his PPL in about average time. The lesson I walked away with is that books and simulation can make you Talk the Talk, but seldom Walk the Walk. It works both ways. You learn from what you have. If you have a sim with reliable instruments, moderately good visuals, and no motion, you'll learn to fly by instruments, with some help from looking out the window, and with no attention paid at all to motion. If you want to fly for real, you'll have to counteract that tendency. But the opposite problem can also exist. If you learn to fly in a real plane with minimal instruments, always in clear weather, you get used to looking out the window or "feeling" the plane's movements, and you are less likely to look at those pesky instruments. So then you have to force yourself to look at them when it becomes necessary to use them. The interesting thing is that IFR is always possible in VMC, but VFR is not possible in IMC. So if you know your instruments, you can always fly, but if you don't, you're in trouble if VMC disappears one day during a flight. I still can't believe the recording I listened to a few days ago in which some pilot was screaming that he was lost and clearly feared that he was about to die. He had passed from VMC into a cloud or something, and apparently he had never looked at his instruments before in his life ... or at least that's the impression I got. Why not just glance at the artificial horizon and see if you really are sideways before the panic attack? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Peter Duniho writes:
If he were so-inclined, you're right that it would. However, he's made it abundantly clear that he doesn't have what it takes to even go for an introductory flight, never mind any serious flight training. Quite so. No money, no time, can't even pass the physical I suspect. Be glad that your situation is different. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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In rec.aviation.student Mxsmanic wrote:
I still can't believe the recording I listened to a few days ago in which some pilot was screaming that he was lost and clearly feared that he was about to die. He had passed from VMC into a cloud or something, and apparently he had never looked at his instruments before in his life ... or at least that's the impression I got. Why not just glance at the artificial horizon and see if you really are sideways before the panic attack? Passing into a cloud isn't always (or even often) just a matter of the windows going white. It sometimes is accompanied by rather violent turbulance. If you let the plane get sideways (it can happen pretty fast) looking at the sideways AI if you're not used to looking at it can be pretty confusing (and scary). -- Don Poitras |
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Mxsmanic,
Autopilots can fly the aircraft better than a human pilot can, and they don't depend on sensations. Didn't you state somewhere else you were opposed to FBW? Kind of a contradiction here.... -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Mike,
Depending on the age, money can come from birthday cash, early holiday (christmas?) gift, or a credit card (30 euro dollar per month min payoff). Work. You forgot good, honest work as a source. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Mxsmanic,
Quite so. No money, no time, can't even pass the physical I suspect. Be glad that your situation is different. Some, even most, is in your power to change. It's just that you chose not to. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Mxsmanic,
A lot of pilots die by trusting what they think they see out the window, even when all the instruments disagree. Ah, another silly statement that I'm sure you won't back up by facts. Will you? Cite one example? -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Peter,
I'll say one thing, perhaps the only thing, you have exactly right: you definitely do NOT belong in the pilot seat of any aircraft. You got that right. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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