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"Joy of Soaring" Book
On Sep 6, 12:41*am, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 9/5/2011 11:31 AM, Brad wrote: On Sep 5, 11:24 am, *wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff 30 years ago my instructor at Issaquah Soaring sold me a copy of this book...............30 years later and a few thousand hours of flight time and I'm still accident free......maybe it's not the book? I'm sure the SSA had every intention it would serve as a flight training book, as did the author. Like Brad, I'm at 30 years and a few thousand hours later, and I also used it as a manual for many years as a CFIG. It's probably not the best choice now, but it was a good choice then. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) I loved Joy of Soaring 25 years ago, don't particularly like seeing it slagged off here either. It taught the simple subject of basic stick and rudder airmanship to this student, quite well. I'm quite confident in saying that if a student masters the basics as presented in Joy of Soaring, and sticks to them, they won't crash. I'm not buying "fundamental lack of knowledge" just yet, either. It doesn't square up with my personal observations. Whose studies? Published where? -Evan Ludeman / T8 |
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"Joy of Soaring" Book
On Sep 6, 3:57*am, T8 wrote:
On Sep 6, 12:41*am, Eric Greenwell wrote: On 9/5/2011 11:31 AM, Brad wrote: On Sep 5, 11:24 am, *wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff 30 years ago my instructor at Issaquah Soaring sold me a copy of this book...............30 years later and a few thousand hours of flight time and I'm still accident free......maybe it's not the book? I'm sure the SSA had every intention it would serve as a flight training book, as did the author. Like Brad, I'm at 30 years and a few thousand hours later, and I also used it as a manual for many years as a CFIG. It's probably not the best choice now, but it was a good choice then. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) I loved Joy of Soaring 25 years ago, don't particularly like seeing it slagged off here either. It taught the simple subject of basic stick and rudder airmanship to this student, quite well. *I'm quite confident in saying that *if a student masters the basics as presented in Joy of Soaring, and sticks to them, they won't crash. I'm not buying "fundamental lack of knowledge" just yet, either. *It doesn't square up with my personal observations. *Whose studies? Published where? -Evan Ludeman / T8 What worries me more are the folks that claim soaring simulators like Condor do a great job of prepping pilots for a variety of conditions. I have never used it, but I can't see how it in any way can prepare a pilot for a windy day up against a rock wall in windy thermal conditions. I'm sure the book "Joy of Soaring" mentions something about flying in these conditions and what to look for, but I can't imagine anyone actually flying in those conditions would be up there because they read how to do it in that book, conversely, after parking in front of a simulator for a few hours there might be some pilots who feel they are ready to head out and give it a try. Brad |
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"Joy of Soaring" Book
On Sep 6, 3:57*am, T8 wrote:
On Sep 6, 12:41*am, Eric Greenwell wrote: On 9/5/2011 11:31 AM, Brad wrote: On Sep 5, 11:24 am, *wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff 30 years ago my instructor at Issaquah Soaring sold me a copy of this book...............30 years later and a few thousand hours of flight time and I'm still accident free......maybe it's not the book? I'm sure the SSA had every intention it would serve as a flight training book, as did the author. Like Brad, I'm at 30 years and a few thousand hours later, and I also used it as a manual for many years as a CFIG. It's probably not the best choice now, but it was a good choice then. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) I loved Joy of Soaring 25 years ago, don't particularly like seeing it slagged off here either. It taught the simple subject of basic stick and rudder airmanship to this student, quite well. *I'm quite confident in saying that *if a student masters the basics as presented in Joy of Soaring, and sticks to them, they won't crash. I'm not buying "fundamental lack of knowledge" just yet, either. *It doesn't square up with my personal observations. *Whose studies? Published where? -Evan Ludeman / T8 Accidents happen due to human nature to make mistakes, NOT due to fundamental lack of knowledge! None of the accidents I am familiar with were due to lack of knowledge. Just look at the statistics. Most accidents, especially this year, happened to very experienced pilots, commercial pilots and CFIG! Writing more books will not change that. Discussing accidents such as on RAS is more effective than books IMHO. Ramy Ramy Ramy |
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On Sep 6, 8:12*am, Brad wrote:
On Sep 6, 3:57*am, T8 wrote: On Sep 6, 12:41*am, Eric Greenwell wrote: On 9/5/2011 11:31 AM, Brad wrote: On Sep 5, 11:24 am, *wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff 30 years ago my instructor at Issaquah Soaring sold me a copy of this book...............30 years later and a few thousand hours of flight time and I'm still accident free......maybe it's not the book? I'm sure the SSA had every intention it would serve as a flight training book, as did the author. Like Brad, I'm at 30 years and a few thousand hours later, and I also used it as a manual for many years as a CFIG. It's probably not the best choice now, but it was a good choice then. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) I loved Joy of Soaring 25 years ago, don't particularly like seeing it slagged off here either. It taught the simple subject of basic stick and rudder airmanship to this student, quite well. *I'm quite confident in saying that *if a student masters the basics as presented in Joy of Soaring, and sticks to them, they won't crash. I'm not buying "fundamental lack of knowledge" just yet, either. *It doesn't square up with my personal observations. *Whose studies? Published where? -Evan Ludeman / T8 What worries me more are the folks that claim soaring simulators like Condor do a great job of prepping pilots for a variety of conditions. I have never used it, but I can't see how it in any way can prepare a pilot for a windy day up against a rock wall in windy thermal conditions. I'm sure the book "Joy of Soaring" mentions something about flying in these conditions and what to look for, but I can't imagine anyone actually flying in those conditions would be up there because they read how to do it in that book, conversely, after parking in front of a simulator for a few hours there might be some pilots who feel they are ready to head out and give it a try. Brad Condor flight simulator is a huge asset to any instructor who chooses to use it with students. The key to success is not the sim, it's the instructor. There are few situations which cannot be accurately simulated and a good instructor can work through them with a student to good effect. The the airplane world, simulators have proven a huge asset. However, they are always used with an instructor at the console setting up realistic scenarios. Students are rarely left on their own to learn with a simulator. |
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On Sep 5, 12:24*pm, Tom wrote:
The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff Right on all points. Bill Daniels |
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On Sep 6, 2:37*pm, Bill D wrote:
On Sep 5, 12:24*pm, Tom wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff Right on all points. Bill Daniels I always found any knowledge is a good thing, the Joy of Soaring is a wonderful place to start and expand on from it's basic concepts, speaking for myself I am/was no Chuck Yeager and anything I can learn from is welcomed.. |
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On 9/6/2011 1:08 PM, ray conlon wrote:
On Sep 6, 2:37 pm, Bill wrote: On Sep 5, 12:24 pm, wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff Right on all points. Bill Daniels I always found any knowledge is a good thing, the Joy of Soaring is a wonderful place to start and expand on from it's basic concepts, speaking for myself I am/was no Chuck Yeager and anything I can learn from is welcomed.. "What Ray said." N.B.: I greatly respect Tom Knauff's opinions regarding instruction methodologies, the importance of the law of primacy, which books do a better/not-so-good job presenting the basics, etc. Why? Quantity of students instructed-to-license: Tom Knauff - Lots, over 3+ decades. Me - Zero. That said, and with a nod to the law of primacy's power over what Tom calls the reptilian part of our brain (which Tom argues takes over in moments of great stress), the rational part of my brain genuinely struggles with the precept that 'proper training' in conjunction with 'accurate self-generated continuing analyses' are INcapable of overcoming the law of primacy. In a nutshell, that's what (any) training is all about. In other words, even if a person has - for whatever reason and in whatever manner - managed to initially learn some bad/incorrect/potentially-life-threatening information prior to obtaining 'Knauff-worthy' instruction on the matter, I'm inclined to believe that the new information can indeed permanently and successfully replace the old/bad/incorrect information...even in moments of great stress. For example, consider stalls. I dare say some measurable percentage of existing glider pilots once thought pulling back on the stick was 'the thing to do,' even if only when 10 years old. I also believe it's possible for this bad information to be 'trained out of wannabe pilots.' It may take more time, and it's probably the wise instructor who tends to probe new-to-them, ab-initio students' concepts of certain potentially life-threatening situations/ideas/concepts (e.g. stalls - what they are and what to do about incipient ones). In any event, I'd expect some insightful (aka 'sneaky') instruction to see if said student really *has* absorbed the correct idea(s) and applies 'em when immediately necessary; in hindsight, I realized my instructor did precisely this. Consequently I tend to think it's somewhat misguided thinking to hold 'bad == *initial* == ideas' up as the primary contributor to the U.S. soaring community's dismal safety record of the past two summers. That's not to suggest some misguided thinking has NOT contributed, though. Hence, "What Ray said." Information is good. Prior bogus 'knowledge' (may? can? might?) make it more difficult to retrain us, but should not make it impossible to do so. Bob W. P.S. I rather enjoyed "The Joy of Soaring" when it was loaned to me way back in 1972 when I got into the sport, because I inhaled anything I could get my hands on regarding soaring and flight. I never felt it hurt me in any way...nor did I ever imagine it was the end all and be all in written soaring flight instruction. |
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On Sep 6, 2:37*pm, Bill D wrote:
On Sep 5, 12:24*pm, Tom wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff Right on all points. Bill Daniels Again: Whose studies? Published Where? From the title page "The Joy of Soaring -- A Training Manual" From the Forward "...As part of the preparation of this manual, its authors visited numerous gliding schools from coast to coast in order to ensure that the text represented the best practices of commercial and club schools as well as to hear the ideas of many prominent soaring pilots....." etc. etc. written by Harner Selvidge, SSA training manual project manager. From the Acknowledgements: "This training manual had its genesis in a suggestion by Mrs. Catherine Hiller, SSA governor of Mass. As a member of the FAA Women's Advisory Committee for Aeronautics she proposed that FAA publish a glider training manual similar to the one they have for power pilots, and that it be prepared for FAA by SSA... SSA undertook the complete job of preparation and publishing on its own. The real authors of this manual are the operators and instructors of the following schools and clubs as well as other individual pilots who gave so generously of their time and experience to make this manual possible and even authoritative...." Okay, so I think we can dispense with the notion that Joy of Soaring was not intended to be flight training manual. I still want to know what objective study has been done and published that supports the claim that pilots are crashing due to "fundamental lack of knowledge". This is a serious subject, it deserves better than sweeping statements without backing and opinion asserted as fact. -Evan Ludeman / T8 |
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"T8" wrote in message ... I still want to know what objective study has been done and published that supports the claim that pilots are crashing due to "fundamental lack of knowledge". This is a serious subject, it deserves better than sweeping statements without backing and opinion asserted as fact. And I would like to see the logical "dotted line" from this particular book to our (admittedly terrible) accident rate. ....because I have yet to see where one has anything to do with the other. Vaughn |
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"Brad" wrote in message ... On Sep 5, 11:24 am, Tom wrote: The SSA has recently mailed a letter to the membership regarding the continuing unacceptable accident rate. Studies have shown one of the primary reasons for a high accident rate is a fundemental lack of knowledge. The Joy of Soaring was written as a simple coffee table book. It was never designed to be a flight training manual. Tom Knauff 30 years ago my instructor at Issaquah Soaring sold me a copy of this book...............30 years later and a few thousand hours of flight time and I'm still accident free......maybe it's not the book? Brad BINGO! Dan |
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