Originally Posted by
ahwalk01
What bad habits are these Capt Happy?
you know when your FAA instructor has about 150hrs and has just one objective getting to 1000hrs accident free. Then you just pick one, bad positioning of the feet on the pedals, not keeping the aircraft perfectly in trim, kind of bad at maintaining a precise heading,
These are litte things but you have to get these early. then you hit EASA, you have to practice a downwind quick stop, it will go well only if you are good at keeping in trim the whole time as you turn the aircraft arround.
FAA instruction is also more disconnected from the theory of the aircraft for example:
FAA CFI instructing autorotation: ok... follow me on the controls... lower the colective aft cyclic (he means compensate for the reduction in flapback in EASA)... baby flare...(he means a two step flare technique that is not taugh in EASA) ... bump it... (he means raise the collective 1/2 an inch to compensate for coning) ... flare flare flare.. level.