Clunck its ex 1-14 which arn't getting hammered home.
The the visual phase of flight is deemed not worth knowing Which means they can't position themselves without a nav aid leading them to a runway.
Trimming is just a bizarre concept. Take your hands off the controls and the aircraft not instally entering a spiral dive is a suprise to them.
I have got one just now that can't gasp the concept that to slow down you need to either increase the nose pitch to maintain the rate of decent while removing power or if you already have it all off you need to lift the nose even if it means you stop decending . Apparently he had been taught point it at the threshold and put the gear down. His record so far is asking for the gear at 220knts with a limiting speed of 160knts. But apparently its not his fault its ATC because they turned him in at 6 miles instead of 10 which is apparently "standard" so he ended up hot and high.
He really didn't like the way i sorted it out either. But we were stabilised at 500ft. You could see what was going to happen as soon as we were turned onto base just by the picture of the runway. Not that he would know having his head rammed in the cockpit never looking out.
Last edited by mad_jock; 22nd Mar 2013 at 12:40.