Originally Posted by
EGKB
I know how aircraft fly/what inputs do what and so on.....
No, you don't.
You have been shown the very basics, and got a simple initial understanding which, if you show some intellectual humility and put in some hard work, you may build upon over the next few hundred hours to start to develop a reasonable understanding.
You do not know. Nobody at your stage of training and education "knows". Indeed, there are people with 10,000 hrs who still have stuff to learn about effects of controls - and would be very happy to admit it.
Just like the very simplistic schooling in subjects like maths and science you'll have seen at GCSE level, the early parts of flying training are massively dumbed down - and certain things are just taught "this way" to make early training survivable and efficient.
There are people posting on this thread with thousands of hours, commercial licences, and degrees in aeronautical engineering. At-least three people have all three. I'm willing to bet that none of them are prepared to post here claiming that they have as full an understanding of how aeroplanes fly as they would like to have, and that there are no gaps in their knowledge which could bite them.
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