On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:06:13 -0500, Mike Rhodes
wrote:

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Thank you for your replies.

It was surprising that no one answered the "do any keep current?"
question. I expected most replies to be specific to that, and they
would be affirmative. Ground track maneuvers might be thought fun by
some. But news groups are not used for such casual yea/nay answers
any more.

Ground track maneuvers do force monitoring of instruments while
keeping one's head outside. And thinking ahead of what they should
read. But so do climbing turns. It is my belief that spins on final
have been directly influenced by ground track maneuvers. Distractions
(as mentioned by Johnson) would not encourage a pilot to pull on the
yoke to tighten the turn at such an inopportune time.

Ground track maneuvers do require extra coordination, but none of it
useful during flight by most any pilot. Ag spraying is anything but
normal. You may be better at it, but I would probably shrug it off,
and not think it so important to get involved in the competition, or
that line of work.

My attitude (commented by Henriques) was more stubborn and fussy this
time than the burn-down-the-house approach in the previous 'Apron'
thread. In it I mentioned 'Zulu' of the phonetic alphabet, but
'Romeo' and 'Juliette' actually started the house burning. The
heterosexual house (Shakespeare was not); and married into 'wrong side
of the tracks' class warfare. But they are not classics nor refer to
anything that is actually classical; only smart-alecky even
troublesome, (which is my opinion of GTM). Romeo and Juliette are
spits of hate that have been included in the phonetic alphabet, and
from strange people that want a troubled house. There must be a
response. Unfortunately the explanation can too easily get lost in
the anger.
--
Michael