On 2007-04-15 06:01:45 -0700, "Oz Lander" said:

http://overtheairwaves.com/

I refer to the first article on this page.

To expand a little on my earlier reply:

I have a real problem with instructors who begin by running down other
instructors, the FAA, the manufacturers, etc. It demonstrates a serious
authority problem, a very dangerous attitude. Apparently he does not
like the instructional techniques that have proven successful for years.

Who is Bob Miller? Yet, he thinks he knows more than the FAA, more than
the Kings, more than Rod Machado, more than the AOPA, more than Bob
Gardner, and even more than me. Only two people seem to know anything
about flight instruction: Bob Miller and God, and God is sometimes
wrong but Miller never is. What, is this guy a retired surgeon or
something?

The US Air Force, which presumably knows something about flying,
successfully uses simulators and view limiting devices for instrument
training.

I strongly believe that the instrument student should get all the
simulator time he can (we are talking about real flight simulators, not
toys published by game companies). I do not think that simulator time
is enough, obviously. You have to fly in order to learn to fly, and
that includes instrument training. But flight simulators are invaluable
in getting your procedures down cold.

As for view limiting devices, I should point out that they have been
use since the very earliest days of instrument flying. We don't paint
the cockpit black like Jimmy Doolittle did, but we come close. I am
convinced that it is harder to fly an airplane with a view limiting
device than it is in actual instrument conditions.

As for the "weather adverse" (sic) flight instructor, perhaps Mr.
Miller has forgotten that most of the largest flight schools are
located in the desert? And for good reason -- the instructors are not
weather averse, as he claims, but you cannot learn to fly unless you
fly. Most places have too many days where the weather is below minimums
-- and surely Mr. Miller is not recommending that anyone fly in weather
like that.

Neither are "personal minimums" training to less than competency.
Aircraft vary widely in equipment, and their pilots in experience. I
have much higher personal minimums for a piston single equipped with
only one VOR and one radio than I do for a turbo-prop with a flight
director. It is not a matter of competence, it is a matter of allowing
a margine of error for equipment error or outright failure. You lose
that single VOR on the piston single in an approach to minimums and you
might as well get yourself measured for another, more permanent set of
wings.

This guy probably has a problem with the whole concept of dangerous
attitudes. If this is the way he really thinks, he is a statistic
already. He just doesn't know it yet.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor