Originally Posted by BEagle
We also teach the 'standard closing angle' method of track correction. Let the off-track student make his estimate of track error, work out the correction time and fly it, then turn back onto the original heading. If you've left the exact original track in the GPS, there's nothing so confidence-building for the student as pulling up the GPS CDI bar when the student the SCA correction has been completed - and showing him/her that it has worked and we're now back on track![/COLOR][/FONT]
Quite. Absolutely. On a slight side issue there - I was talking with another instructor at another establishment recently who was taught SCA on his civilian CPL course, at an FTO I had not heard of but he assured me his instructors were not mil background (although the potential is that the course content may have been). However, he intimated that SCA had been viewed on by the CAA with much more warmth recently - is there any official word regarding the teaching of SCA? i.e. something that will make it enter the books of Pratt et al. - which would be a significant improvement...mind you so would max drift and clock techniques be more than useful to PPLs. In my experience SCA + MD/Clock techniques have been very very easy for new pilots to understand, adopt, and fly with accuractely...