Stealth Pilot wrote in
:

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:24:29 -0500, Kevin Clarke
wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:
This group's own Rick Durden published an article in AOPA Pilot this
month entitled "Are you a good pilot?" In it, Rick raised many
interesting points about things that can affect good piloting.

...

I'm interested in hearing what you do to combat the human tendency
toward sloppiness? Any tricks that you might use, or methods you
might employ?

Don't know if this was mentioned yet, but AOPA Flight Training current
issue (Feb 08) has a good article titled "Are you on your game?" It
lists 10 things that we get sloppy on. To recap

1. Sterile Cockpit: gone
2. Fly Headings: Whatever
3. Level Flight: More or less
4. See and Avoid: Avoid Seeing
5: Nice Field down the finding an emergency LZ
6. Stealth Traffic Pattern
7. Flat Landings
8. Go Around
9. Slow flight: Or an inability to perform slow
10: Stalls

wow such a detailed list.
you could do all that in the late evening at 65 knots and never even
raise a sweat. such a champion!

how about a sloppy pilot is the guy who cant fly his aircraft in a 20
knot crosswind.

fly a decent aircraft like a tailwind and you'll never get sloppy.

I wouldn't imagine so!

Tell me a bit about the tailwind.. I've always had a bit of a yen for
one...



Bertie