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Old 26th Jul 2011, 11:17
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Whirlybird

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OK, keep instrument appreciation. But it should be just that, ie learning to use the instruments properly. Forget foggles, screens etc. They don't work, you pick up visual information around them even when you think you aren't, and they give students false confidence. How do you convince a student who's managing to do instrument flying really, really well, that he/she won't be able to do it for real? How do you tell them that real IMC is very different, when you just gave them the foggles so that they had a simulated IMC condition? "OK Bloggs, this is how you do it, but don't ever try it, because actually it's not at all like this. You did really well, and you'll pass your Skills Test, and you've learned how to do it, but now don't". Mixed messages or what!
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