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Old 20th Oct 2020, 14:17
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Fl1ingfrog
 
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Based wholly on the information provided in the report: this demonstrates both a sloppy and an appalling standard of instructing. For me it is nonsense to excuse what took place by waffling on about whether half of trim travel or three quarters or whatever. Even with the trim fully deflected the instructor should have easily managed the situation in a C152.That was not the problem. The instructor is clearly at fault and hadn't even secured his seat belt correctly. The student obviously had and so he suffered no injury.

This was lesson number 1. The primary effects of controls together with the further effects should take the whole of the lesson and continue until they are fully understood. The effects of controls should be learnt over at least two but better three lessons and the full effect of trim discovered at the end of this period. It is a disaster for the student if these early lesson/s is rushed and skimped. They will be the basis of all subsequent lessons. Given it was lesson 1 how on earth can it be expected that a student will have it in their mind what will happen if they let go of the controls. It must always be possible that a student will let go of the controls unexpectedly. The report describes the instructors hands (and probably his feet) were not in a position to take control but, clearly, nor was his head. How on earth can it take 25 seconds to take control! He was certainly not observing or taking an interest in his student. It must be obvious that his head was somewhere else, he panicked and grabbed at the controls so roughly, even bending the throttle, and warping the tail plane. The aeroplane had clearly been allowed to exceed VNE.
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