ADF Frustrations
I am having real trouble in trying to teach one particular student how to fly ADF approaches. No matter how much I try to get the picture across, she seems to lose the plot and cannot fathom out what is the current position of the aircraft and what heading is needed to regain track.We have spent much time on the PC flight simulator and I feel real sorry for her. She can expound the theory but somehow is as yet, unable to put that theory into practice. I seem to have no real trouble with other students.
First of all, can anyone suggest a website that teaches how to do ADF approaches?
Secondly (and believe it or not I am serious) I have read in Readers Digest and other articles,that some females may have a problem with spacial orientation because their temporal lobe is different to the orientation make-up of a male brain. Examples that I have read of this includes difficulty with map reading. Could this explain why a highly intelligent female pilot such as my student continually runs into trouble with interpreting ADF tracking?
Having now stuck my neck out, her problem could be that I am a lousy instructor!