Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Are new students told not to slam the throttle, (or any aircraft control), on their first few lessons ? I cannot remember if I was told that all those years ago, (but I am always gentle with machinery anyway). ........
Certainly I recall being told that when I was learning (early 90's) ...... and I then drummed it into my Studes once I became an instructor a decade later.
All part of Effects of Controls - smooth operation of any control being the aim.
With the throttle, on the old engines, there was the added potential entertainment value of a "rich cut" which would have been very embarrassing when starting to go-around after a PFL into some farmer's field or even on a standard go-around! So it would be briefed again there for those those exercises and jumped on at any point on
ANY flight. Nothing changed when I started instructing on the DA-40D TDi despite FADEC supposedly looking after things - still a gentle acceleration/deceleration.
And, like
cavuman1's Dad, I fully supported his concept that "being gentle" with technology was the way forward - that view was derived from my initial Aircraft Engineering background from the late 70's onward. Not sure I was ever "loaded with common sense" like his Dad tho!
Mrs H 'n' H certainly would like to take issue with any such claim on my part!!!
