>When I am helping new people learn to fly, my main goal is to keep their plane from crashing. This is accomplished by >keeping the plane 2 mistakes high when they are flying.

>When it gets out of control, any good trainer will level itself out if you just let go of the sticks. But only if you are enough >mistakes high that it can recover.

>The crux of this being - "ALTITUDE IS YOUR FRIEND"


There's no doubt that I'd read this many times, but it seemed to be self evident and/or intuitive.

It's probably also the single most important thing that allowed me to learn on my own with so little effort.

When you're WAY up there, you have time to react, time to make some mistakes, evaluate, correct and continue on.

However, I suppose, to most, it just LOOKS too cool down low to take the time to learn "way up there" (G)