Originally Posted by bencoulthard
My own woodwork teacher always said...
My grandfather, who was a woodwork teacher amongst other things, started his lessons (he told me) by putting out a pot on the bench and telling the boys (girls got to do needlework only in those days) that this was the "finger pot", into which they should put their fingers when they chopped them off.
None of his boys ever lost a finger (even though in those days before the current culture of H&S nazis they had plenty of scope for doing so).
Hmm. How to apply this philosophy to flight training, I wonder ...?