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Old 27th July 2010 | 10:58
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NazgulAir
 
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Congratulations on getting your PPL on a "real" airplane .
Having seen abysmal standards in the most basic skills of some people, I am inclined to believe that everyone should learn to fly on a tailwheel trainer to avoid bad habits that make for poor skills in any but the most benign kind of plane.
Yes, I was lucky that there was a place with Rollason Condors, which had a lovely narrow envelope that teaches you to keep on your toes. It's a pity that such places have disappeared alongside the oldfashioned stick-and-rudder instructors that were around in the seventies. Now you have a chance of being tought basic skills by an instructor who spent his entire flying career so far on (***) (very fault-forgiving) airplanes !!! In fact, I wrote an article in the Flight Safety Bulletin years ago voicing my concern about this fact and urging GASCo to look into the relationship between this and accident statistics.
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