Originally Posted by
scifi
Some of these instructors forget that they are logging the flight as P1, so they should be looking out of the window. It's called CRM.. Cockpit Resource Management. The student is PF and should be left to fly the airplane. If the pilot wants to maintain x.thousand feet +- 50 ft. how is he going to do that without looking at the altimeter..?
The same goes for controlling the heading +-3 degrees..
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Wonderful wonderful post! Complete tosh of course, but I enjoyed reading it
Scifi the student is learning to be a pilot and captain of the aeroplane. They have to practice good lookout from the first lesson.
In vfr flying maintaining height and heading are done by reference to things outside the aeroplane with occasional glances at the instruments to check all is well. Trying to follow the instruments doesn't work.