Originally Posted by
BraceBrace
It’s actually a very simple process.
I am beginning to notice here on these forums that we have an EXTREMELY wide range of pilot experience and expertise. This isn't a bad thing. It's actually a very good thing.
But when we engage in discussion concerning a training issue it can get a bit confusing when someone posts in the realm of basic flight training in the GA sense and someone else answers as an ATP dealing with specifics to flying an airliner.
Not that there is anything wrong with this. It's just notable that there are certain "differences" in the two planes of reference.
Take rotation for example; in the general aerodynamic sense referencing an average GA type airplane, the act of rotating into the transition between ground roll and flight contains elements of torque, gyroscopic precession, P Factor, slipstream forces, AND any wind correction required. Hardly a "simple process".
This by no means requires an instructor to teach all this while dual is being given. This is done through preflight and postflight instruction. In the airplane while in flight naturally the proper pedagogy involves a rote response. So in this sense "yes".........it's a "simple process". The airplane tells you what it wants you to do and you do it..........simple!
The overall goal of both approaches to the issue is in understanding it in theory and executing it in flight.
In the 60 odd years I've been directly involved with flight safety and training I've learned that there is seldom one magic bullet answer to any question involving training issues and procedural issues. Nothing is really complicated while at the same time nothing is really "simple".
Dudley Henriques