On 6 Jan 2005 22:40:48 -0600, Andrew Sarangan
wrote:

Unfortunately, not only does the FAA
teach this contorted method of CDI interpretation, the majority of CFI's
also teach this way, and many are not even aware that there is a simpler
way. I wrote an article about this and sent it to a few magazines, and
it was turned down because they thought that this method was too
'controversial'.


It is this kind of stoneage thinking in aviation that is the reason,
for example, that we can log 20 hours of instrument time on totally
ancient, obsolete, and archaic potentiometer-driven simulators, but
only can get 10 hours on a modern, state-of-the-art computer-driven
simulator with many times the capabilities and function.

There is much about aviation stuck in a time warp. Personally, I'm
surprised that we have moved as fast as we have with GPS, (which is
about half as fast as we could and should have.)