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Would love to teach more about detecting and avoiding wires..
You say that the fixed wing training was 10 times better than the helicopter training. Where can we get this information from so that we can apply it to the helicopter world???
The most difficult thing to teach students is SA and ADM. If anyone has unusual ideas as to how to go about it then please let me know.
What is sad is when bad decision making kills pilots. It happens time and again to supposedly sensible people.
The best thing we can teach students is when to say NO. When to admit that the are scared of flying in weather that is life threatening. When to admit that they do not have the training to do the job and to demand that training. Just because we are doing a job that we love it doesn't mean that we should sacrifice our lives for it.
Scud running in a single engine at 200ft agl over the ocean with no rad-alt fits into this category... Nobody should be agreeing to do this.... It does make it cheap for the operator/ customer though... When this is perceived as normal by those entering the industry we have a big, big problem ahead of us to make this a safe industry.
SA and ADM is the most important thing we can attempt to teach. I just wish it wasn't so damn difficult!!!
Last edited by splodge; 23rd Feb 2005 at 02:28.