ORIGINAL: BobFE
I've also talked to people who told me that the old idea of a "buddy box" was that the instructor ripped the transmitter out of the students hands and desparitly tried to recover the plane before it crashed.
Yeah but nothing is as much fun as watching an instructor chasing a student around the field trying to get the transmitter back from the student. The student "just knows" he can save it without help. Of course he's usually wrong.