Originally Posted by Windy Militant
My instructor used many cunning ploys to get me through it. These included Flying a Circuit without looking in the office at all. If he caught me peeking he'd bat me round the head with his knee board.
Oy!! My instructor flicks through these pages - stop giving him ideas - It's bad enough being nagged through the lesson without being physically abused as well!!!!
If it's any consolation, I only used FS2004 for 1 week, when I first started lessons and when I knew I was being taken from lesson 4 - 6 in one session - for reasons I won't go into.
I managed to get from takeoff to landing on FS2004 in a week and on my first flat session my instructor was dead impressed with what I could do in the real thing.
Only problem I had is in that short space of time I'd started obsessing on the instruments. Once he'd realised that I was using the attitude indicator to see if I was level (and various other little foibels!!) - Little circle discs of paper started being shoved on instuments - I don't look anymore.
To this day I'm still flying left wing down and can't hold attitude pictures in my head but still enjoy my flying (despite the constant nagging from him next to me) - ENJOY