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| Thread ID: 129986 | 2013-03-22 09:17:00 | Glad I am not a GA instructor any more. | tut (12033) | PC World Chat |
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| 1333729 | 2013-03-22 22:38:00 | Brakes are not used in short landings except to wear things out. (Wet clover seems more slippery with brakes than without.) ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1333730 | 2013-03-22 22:39:00 | Unfortunately with the sausage factory flying schools, they are getting people a license for a fee. Learning to fly is a bit expensive so it is only touched on lightly. It is ridiculous to expect a student pilot to make a good landing when his / her instructor has probably never seen one, let alone made one or taught any. To land, drive gently downhill and aim to hit in the middle of the runway. It is adequate for long runways and perfect weather but not particularly useful when the student faces a different situation, like gusty wind or, shock-horror, a grass runway. +1 |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1333731 | 2013-03-23 01:36:00 | Brakes are not used in short landings except to wear things out. (Wet clover seems more slippery with brakes than without.) ;) What about dry rye grass and brown top fescue? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1333732 | 2013-03-23 01:48:00 | Perhaps the whole concept of a student pilot passing his licence then becoming an instructor to build hours to get a commercial job is flawed. In ww2 excellent natural pilots were sometimes sent to instruct after wings course but not every man and his dog. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1333733 | 2013-03-23 02:01:00 | In competitions use of brakes seems to inspire those who land fastest to leave the most smoke, which is only good for tyre sales. Austers and Tiger Moths have about the same braking power once you've used the Auster brakes a couple of times. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1333734 | 2013-03-23 06:48:00 | Not surprising that the incident comes from CTC. 200 hours in an airbus and you're good to fly as FO with Jet Star. All auto training in an Airbus, as my mate said to me once, the funniest thing in the air is a Jet Star pilot on approach to Wellington with a 35kt crosswind. Well perhaps it's funny from a pilots perspective, those jolting around around in the cabin would find it far less amusing. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1333735 | 2013-03-24 03:31:00 | I do have to wonder if this student faked his eyesight test... or didn't have one at all. Hope he considers a change of direction after this. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1333736 | 2013-03-24 04:12:00 | Hope he considers a change of direction after this. As in the location of the cardinal points, and that an east-west runway isn't successfully landed on while on a north or south bearing ... |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1333737 | 2013-03-24 04:52:00 | I have seen aircraft not lined up with the runway on finals and finally at the last minute realise there mistake and line up with it. When you ask them afterwards they deny it. It actually happens more than you realise. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1333738 | 2013-03-24 04:53:00 | I have seen aircraft not lined up with the runway on finals and finally at the last minute realise there mistake and line up with it. When you ask them afterwards they deny it. It actually happens more than you realise. :) Close enough is good enough |
prefect (6291) | ||
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