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Old 09-16-2007 | 08:42 AM
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da Rock
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Default RE: Crashed and not exactly sure why

BTW, where is a list of preprogrammed instructions for "unfamiliar situations" going to come from?

You need the list before you encounter them, right.
So you'd need to tell us what they're going to be. That won't work, so.....
We need to list them all for you.
When do you plan to go fly again, 'cause this is gonna take awhile.

See what I mean?

Honest, we're trying to help. And the best way to learn to fly is to learn right away to simply steer the airplane where you want it to go. Everything starts with you learning to make it go where you want it to do. That's what you're needing to practice from your first time on the sticks. Practice moving the plane around in the air to go where you want it to. It's that simple.

I very often tell my student to move from two mistakes high to one mistake high and do some lefts and rights. It's surprising how often simply trying to keep the airplane at a different altitude shows just how little control the student has and how much the airplane is deciding it's course with him "flying" it. The only students I have who have trouble with that simple exercise are the ones who want a list of stick movements for each maneuver.

Flying is an analog exercise, not a digital one. It's touch, not rote.