For me it is vital to teach pilots being beyond the limits in all flight regimes.
As I stated before I used to race cars and as such was comfortable in a racing car on the limits and beyond at high speed.
Those skills have saved my bacon nowadays on numerous occasions.
Not so the driver who has never experienced a car beyond the limits who understeers straight into a brick wall because they know no better.
They maybe safe careful drivers until one day something happens.
Its the same with flying teaching avoidance does not teach a pilot to be comfortable with an aircraft beyond the limits and hence his chances have to be smaller of recovering.
If you dont experience spinning how do you know whether you are spinning or in a spiral dive? Both requiring very different techniques to recover? They also require an instant instinctive response gained through comfort and familiarity.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 20th May 2012 at 10:28.