Oh dear God I just can't resist staying in this discussion.
Soooo....
Armchairflyer in the fifties our training to get the CPL included the requirement to demonstrate recoveries from unusual attitudes on limited panel instruments....Airspeed....Altimiter and Turn and Bank only.
The recovery was performed using three stage amber as our vision limiting device....the " Hood " that pilots wear today was not in use......
A " hood " is a very poor vision limiting device compared to two stage amber to practice flying by reference to instruments only..
......so if we could demonstrate that level of proficiency in the fifties how do you think today's CPL students would do using three stage amber on a limited panel for unusual attitude recovery?
Even more important, how many of today's flight instructors teaching new CPL students would be able to teach that exercise using the same equipment?.....the answer to that question may help us to decide if the old school school instructors were inferior to today's instructors.
Last edited by Chuck Ellsworth; 13th Mar 2014 at 00:11.