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Bert Willing wrote: Get yourself an instructor. FFS. Who do you think does my check flights, who decided I could fly a single seater? Is there anything wrong with asking advice from other people? After all - what do you think happens at the bar after flying? |
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There's nothing wrong by asking questions, and I trust that you came that
far by the help of an instructor. However, if it comes to basic training, I don't think that advice from a newsgroup will get you anywhere. You don't know the person who gives you that advice (he might be no instructor at all), and personal chemistry plays a strong role in the relation student-instructor. Now, if you are looking for "after the flights at the bar" talk, then you are absolutely in the right place with this newsgroup :-) "Cats" wrote in message oups.com... Bert Willing wrote: Get yourself an instructor. FFS. Who do you think does my check flights, who decided I could fly a single seater? Is there anything wrong with asking advice from other people? After all - what do you think happens at the bar after flying? |
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Bert Willing wrote: There's nothing wrong by asking questions, Hence your previous post? and I trust that you came that far by the help of an instructor. So far as I know in the UK there is no other way. I can't speak for the US of course. However, if it comes to basic training, I don't think that advice from a newsgroup will get you anywhere. You don't know the person who gives you that advice (he might be no instructor at all), and personal chemistry plays a strong role in the relation student-instructor. But I do have the mental capability to think about the advice, turn it over, compare it with what the instructors are saying (or not saying) and so on. It's true the person giving the advice may not be an instructor but that doesn't necessarily invalidate it. At times it seems that many instructors (and this holds in many areas, not just gliding) have forgotten what it's like to find things difficult. I may be pretty new to gliding, but I've been around Usenet for many years and am well familiar with 'caveat emptor'. Having read the various bits of advice earlier, it strikes me that many people have not actually addressed the question I asked - 'how, if you had this problem, did you deal with it?' but have actually addressed a whole other lot of questions. Personally doing a knees bend beside the airfield strikes me as too little, too late. If I'm not aware of the changing picture some 20' up I will fly the glider into the ground as that's when the round-out starts. It also struck me that something simple was sometimes being turned into something complicated. Now, if you are looking for "after the flights at the bar" talk, then you are absolutely in the right place with this newsgroup :-) "Cats" wrote in message oups.com... Bert Willing wrote: Get yourself an instructor. FFS. Who do you think does my check flights, who decided I could fly a single seater? Is there anything wrong with asking advice from other people? After all - what do you think happens at the bar after flying? |
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