ORIGINAL: jetmech05
Pilotfighter...You can say I promise not to let you crash...but that is an empty promise...there is no instructor that can save an airplane in every situation.....I used to think I could promise not to let you crash until with one student....while praticing approaches I called for go around the airplane powered up and from an altitude of about 6 ft in the blink of an eye nose dived to the deck.....The only thing that could have happened was the student pushed instead of pulled...he confirmed that is exactly what he did......now this was not his first pratice approach...nor was it from the direction we were coming in from......
It happened so fast it was over before it began
Yup. I had a student who couldn't get it into his head that you pull the stick back to raise the nose. Apparently, some video games are set up just the other way. He'd do OK most of the time, but when he got tense he'd revert to video-game mode. On his first shot at landing he made a very good approach and then, when he tried to flare, he pushed the stick hard forward. Nobody my age has the reflexes to recover from that. Similar things can happen on takeoff.