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Old 6th January 2006 | 08:34
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Whirlybird

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Re: Young pilots

OTOH............

I had a sixteen year old for a trial lesson. During the briefing, I emphasised looking outside, as one does. As soon as we got into the helicopter he stared at the instrument panel, and asked me which ones he should be looking at. I told him again to keep looking outside. When I gave him control he was all over the place, and it turned out that he thought looking at the horizon meant looking at the AI. I started again with words of one syllable, like "the world out there", but it still didn't help; no matter what I did he was fixated on the instrument panel.

Too many computer games perhaps?

Or just plain stupid?

Anyway, proof that just being young doesn't make you a natural helicopter pilot.
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