ORIGINAL: rclement
ORIGINAL: RCKen
rclement,
While simulators are a good thing most of the time, I've found that they can also be a bad thing. Especially if somebody spends a lot of time on one before meeting an instructor. It's possible for the student to pick up bad habits from the simulator. Then the instructor has to spend time "un-learning" the bad habits before they can teach them to fly. This doesn't happen to everybody, but it does happen.
Ken
I agree Ken. Just that so far my experience with students is that they've only spent a little bit of time on the sim and then come down to the field to fly the "real plane". I did have one student that said, on his third flight, "when can I get my solo card" That was too funny. He hadn't even landed or taken off yet.
There is really only 1 bad habit that I have seen that was significant. That is taking the fingers off the the sticks and letting them "spring" back to the center when they are ready to relax the sticks. That is a bad habit fundamentally due to the wear on the pots and gimbles not to mention the undesirable things it does to the flight,,,, but frankly it just bugs me to hear the springs resonating.
Specifically what are the bad habits that you guys have seen from simulator use? It would be good to know so that we can look for them during training sessions.