Good morning Kermit and Captairpox and everyone else out there:
This will have to be brief as I must leave for the airport soon to do some flying with the new owner of a Coot Amphibian.
When I get some spare time I will sit down and write a very full and understandable description of why we see such differing understanding of how to correctly fly airplanes.
Now please bear with me, I am not suggesting that I am the best and only teacher on earth however I have been fortunate enough to have not only learned from some of the best there is but somehow managed to live this long in the process.
We all are driven by our passion of flight and we all want to share our knowledge with others. So for free I will write exactly how I present my course for advanced flying. The course is "high command control" and involves very precision flying that I will not go into here at this time. Please remember it will take some time as it is difficult to put on paper so as to be understandable without the visual presentation of actually being in the airplane.
Our problem here is we all are saying almost the same thing but there is some differences in the actual sight picture presentation. For instance when I referenced "lateral" I did not mean to look i.e. turn head or eyes laterally, what I was referring to was the lateral position of the wheels in relation to the center line.
Another quick note: The distance one looks foward, or the center of vision foward will be determined by speed as well as eye height above the runway.
As to the comment on wide body and the computer call out in the latter stages of the landing,,I have not flown Boeings but have been given the training in the Airbus A320 as reward for teaching one of the Airbus test pilots how to fly the PBY with great precesion, It took two years during which we flew the PBY in North America, Europe, Africa and South America as far South as Santiago Chile and as part of the package I got to learn some of the A320 flying. And it was fun not to mention different, and the retard command does work.
Now I must go to the airport so until I get some more time will someone tell me where they think I should look when doing an inverted ribbon pick up?
Don't rush into the answer think about first.
P.S.
Sorry for the sloppy writing I just do not have time to correst it right now.
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Above all else remember:
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
[ 21 November 2001: Message edited by: Cat Driver ]