Airmanship Training at Very Low Cost?
Mods, forgive my double posts, but the subjects differ.
We have often flown experienced airline pilots at our gliding club. Aside from a tendency to round out (flare) at approx. twenty feet above the ground, they usually do well. Gliding training takes one back to basics, we cover stalls, spins, spiral dives, negative g, planning a SAFE circuit (pattern), we MONITOR the approach, we correct for UNDERSHOOTING - or the other extreme. And all of these exercises are done in real time in real aircraft and actual weather conditions (though seldom at night!).
So could I recommend gliding training as a prerequisite to becoming an airline pilot? (Sully was an experienced glider pilot).