As I said in an earlier post, we are taught to fly 'by numbers'. That's because the concept of A of A is not easy to grasp until you've been flying for a while, so to teach A of A from day one would be very difficult, since the student would have no 'background' to apply it to. So by the numbers it is.
However, afer we've been flying a while we should have begun to realise that 'by numbers' isn't the whole, or even the correct, story. That's when we can start to think 'A of A' and fly 'A of A'.
When we are students, it seem counter-intuitive at the stall to have to pitch the aeroplane nose-down to recover from a condition where the aeroplane is already descending. If you're thinking 'A of A', it's the most natural thing in the world to do and is instinctive.
Edited to add that the one instrument I'd really like in the Chippy is an A of A indicator. But they seem to be the presrve of fast jets and Concorde.
SSD
Last edited by Shaggy Sheep Driver; 16th Nov 2005 at 14:07.