Originally posted by David Cutler
I absolutely agree, which is why I reckon 'looking over your shoulder' to fly a model wards you might work, but is teaching the wrong thing and putting off the inevitable time when the orientation has got to be learned, and embedded in the reflexes.
I'm not sure I agree. Looking over the shoulder is embedding the 'cockpit pov' very much like teaching guitar and having the student look over your shoulder to get the notes correct. I've taught this for years and my students (the ones that stuck with the hobby) all fly with feet firmly planted and very little body english (except when the pucker factor rises
). The guitar students eventually learn to overcome the need to look over my shoulder as well.
To extend the analogy I think of it more like looking down at the fretboard... eventually you don't have to, and you don't have to "un-learn" looking at it.
Playing the short cut 'flat-fingered' bar chords or stretching/sliding to avoid using the pinky is analogous to the 'prop low the wing' shortcut and takes much work to "un-learn".
