On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:24:00 AM UTC-5, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 16/07/13 04:21, Nicholas Giese wrote:

Well, after years of being an armchair pilot in Condor, I've finally booked my first-ever soaring lesson for this weekend. If anyone has any general tips they'd like to pass along, I'll gladly listen! I'm sure the first flight will be very memorable.


Two tips:
1. Read the darn book. If you show up for the lesson knowing that this is lesson one, that you will be doing how the controls work, but you've already read the book, you know how the controls work, you understand primary and secondary effects of the controls, and now you're there to put it in place in the air, you will be miles ahead of the game. Flying is for doing in the air things you understand on the ground. The same goes for the rest of your training.
2. Take charge early. You are doing more judgment training than flight training really. The instructor helps you to learn to fly, he or she does not really "teach you to fly."