Lookout
The recent midair collision at Shoreham has prompted me to think about, yet again, how we teach lookout especially wrt circuit joining. How much time is devoted to teaching students how to lookout?
Here are a couple I will start with:-
1. Make sure preflight you have a clean windscreen - a screen full of bugs won't help you to see a/c.
2. You have to move your head to check behind "blind spots" such as canopy stays etc.
Please can we avoid the perrenial debates on the merits or otherwise of over head joins as opposed to direct joins or even usa joins!