Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
es330td wrote:
On Oct 7, 12:42 pm, Mike Granby wrote:
His corrections were almost unnoticable; the plane just stayed where
it was meant to be. I comment on this to his dad later, and we both
wondered if his sim training had giving him this skill...
My CFI said the same thing. I "played" MSFS with an eye toward IRL
flying for about 2 years before sitting left seat the first time. We
did a 30 mile cross country during my second lesson and he said that
I held course and altitude better than some people he knows who have
been flying for 20 years. Either FS was responsible or I am the most
natural pilot to get in a plane. I am not even thinking about it
being the latter.

I'm assuming there's a lot more to this 2nd lesson story as it reads
as the antithesis of normal procedure for a flight training learning
curve. :-))

Not to mention that it would hardly be the first time an instructor blew
smoke of a students ass to make them feel good about a flight.



101 actually :-) Any good instructor uses the first flight to bolster
the new student's confidence level to the point where they honestly
believe that they CAN learn to fly. In almost all cases this involves a
bit of "positive over stating". No harm at all in doing this as it's all
corrected down the line.
DH

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Dudley Henriques