Hey Dragchute:
No problem at all. I probably should never have made the comment in the first place.
I suffer from the same prejudices as everyone else and some things annoy me for no real reason.
Another handicap I have is I have been flying to long and am probably just getting to the point that I am not as tolerant as I should be.
However I do believe that flight training is not as good as it could be due to its being.
"simplified" "dumbed down" "catchy phrases" "to many acronyms" and mainly because the basics are not taught properly, nor understood by some instructors.
Lets examine some comments one hears, reads, about landings. " When you feel the airplane sink toward the runway."
You don't feel the airplane sink, you see it sink.
Another difficulty I have is how pilots are taught where to look in the final stages of a landing. A great number of instructors teach the student to look at the far end of the runway or further to judge the landing.
So lets examine where to look.
I am about to land my helicopter, lets say an R22 on a roof top helipad. When I reach lets say fifty feet above the roof top helipad would you advise me to shift my point of sight up to the horizon , or look a mile or two away?
I bet someone is going to come up with the "speed" thing so lets ask a race car driver doing 200 mph if they look a mile or so ahead of the car as they manouver past other cars?
Cat Driver:
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.