Mxsmanic wrote in
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Jay Honeck writes:

In my case, my instructor NEVER discussed theories about flight. He
was a stick and rudder guy, could fly anything (and did), taught me
volumes, but rarely spoke about *why* certain things happened in
flight. I guess he just figured I would learn these things when
studying for the written.

I never did learn a lot of the subtle stuff (like why a rudder input
banks the wings) until much later. I suspect Paul is in the same
boat.

Most skills can be learned in a number of ways. Many skills are
taught in rote manner, i.e., "to accomplish x, do y," or "when the
aircraft does x, react with y." This is easy and fast to learn but
makes exceptions harder to handle. Skills can also be taught by
teaching theory and then letting the student apply the theory, but
this is rather tedious and slow, and the student must have good
reasoning ability in order to succeed. To address the largest
possible audience, rote learning tends to be preferred, but that does
occasionally leave competent and curious students wondering about
certain things.




You are an idiot.

You don't fly and you never will.


Bertie