Examiner "Distractions" During Checkride

Interesting. If your field elevation is under 1000 ft MSL I would have
assumed that the thousand-foot indicator pointing just left of zero would
be a tipoff.

You'd think - but it ain't so for about half of the folks I pull that
trick on.

Tony LS6-b "6N'

In article ,
TonyV wrote:

Interesting. If your field elevation is under 1000 ft MSL I would have
assumed that the thousand-foot indicator pointing just left of zero would
be a tipoff.

You'd think - but it ain't so for about half of the folks I pull that
trick on.

It's too easy to see that hand where you "know" it is instead of where
it really is, when you're paying most of your attention to the 100s hand
anyway.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

These are all good tests. In my 7 years as a basic instructor flying first
flights I have had only one real problem flight,that was when a" Lady "
started to scream at about 100ft and didn't stop untill we finished the
landing roll .Far more distracting because she could not be talked round
and would not shut up.
We beat the tug back.






At 04:44 01 May 2009, Mike Ash wrote:
In article ,
TonyV wrote:

Interesting. If your field elevation is under 1000 ft MSL I would
have

assumed that the thousand-foot indicator pointing just left of zero
would
be a tipoff.

You'd think - but it ain't so for about half of the folks I pull that

trick on.

It's too easy to see that hand where you "know" it is instead of where

it really is, when you're paying most of your attention to the 100s hand

anyway.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon