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PTS? isn't that another TLA?
"Basil Fairston" wrote in message ... PTS accuracy landing, whats that. In UK all landings are supposed to be accurate. "Michael" wrote in message om... Can anyone who is familiar with soaring instruction in the US and Italy comment on the differences? I ask because I have started training a 'student' - actually an Italian licensed glider pilot - who wants to add US glider ratings to his US commercial and CFI certificates. His flying is generally very good, but I have already noticed that there are things he is not familiar with that any US glider pilot with a hundred flights would certainly know. So far, I've noticed that there are certain wing runner signals he is not familiar with - I assume this is because Italian procedures differ from those in the US. He also has obviously had no instruction in formal glider XC planning (as opposed to actually flying XC - this he has done) and has never heard of the PTS accuracy landing as we do it in the US. I would appreciate as much information on the differences between the US and Italian systems of instruction as possible, mainly so that I can identify the likely problem areas and make sure we cover them in depth. I've tried to find the Italian equivalent of a glider PTS, and have had no luck at all. Michael |
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Stephen Thomas wrote:
PTS? isn't that another TLA? Now what the hell is TLA?? And please don't answer with yet another obscure acronym. To the original questions: I don't know the Italian habits either, but I know one thing: Never, never assume any habits as granted. Eg. at my airfield there are two soaring clubs, and even the procedures of these two clubs differ substantially. (Such as, when winch launching, whose responibility is it to observe final (wing hoder vs start observer), who does the radio with the winch driver (start observer vs. pilot) etc.) Then, nobody here around considers rudder waggling to be any signal at all. Everybody waggles with all control surfaces and with the airbrakes just as a prestart check. (All our gliders are radio equipped, something thing that *we* take as granted.) The big problem is, you can't just ask people what their habits are, because they are so used to them that they are no longer aware that these are habits. Formal cross country preparation? I have no idea what you mean by this. Usually I have a rough plan, go up and then fly this plan or change it according to weather situation and mood. My only "plan" is to always stay within gliding range of a landeable field. PTS landing? Whatever this may be, a landing is considered correct if the glider is smoothly put down within the first 60 meters of the runway. No, we have no name for this. Bottom line: I would recommend that you just go through the whole routine with a foreign pilot. Encourage him to comment your procedures, whether they meet what he has done or whether they differ or whether they are entirely new to him or whether he misses something. Like this, you both will learn something. Stefan |
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