RE: The most common beginner flying mistakes
From my experience, the all to common right hand turn on landing death spiral is the worst thing to overcome for a beginner. You know, when they make the turn, and pull the elevator up when they're still in the turn making it steeper and steeper. More up and it does a nice spiral into the ground.
When I'm instructing I always tell them to expect it, and run them through figure 8's for a long time before they get to try a right hand turn on landing. I've found that if you tell them to give half the input to the right, they can handle the turn better (even though its the same amount of deflection of the surfaces.
I'm thinking its because we learn to drive a car with the steering on the left, so its easier to turn left than right - more normal feeling. Do you guys from across the pond that drive on the right concurr?