Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently – is what determines how fast a student learns to pilot an airplane? Some students seem to race through the syllabus, picking up skills and moving on through the different stages without a backward glance. For others their progress is more measured.
Despite the terrible weather this last month I have been doing various lessons for students in the Decathlon, and those students while experienced enough in the basics of flight and aircraft control have no prior experience behind a constant speed propellor, which which the Decathlon is equipped. As I’ve written previously, there are a range… Read more »
I’m very happy to say my new aircraft is online – an American Champion SuperDecathlon, C-FLMZ, and that means I’m now able to offer tailwheel training in it based at Billy Bishop Airport.
It’s a funny how things go in threes, isn’t it? Today’s “three” was a trio of enquiries all nearly identical: “Hi Alec, I have an established job in a professional field, I’m looking at my future behind a desk for the next thirty years, and I think I want to be an airline pilot instead.
Every so often I get an email or phone call from a happy family member who wants their young one to get a PPL or recreational pilot permit…
Some years ago, flight crews on at least the largest airplanes had five members, each one of whom would have a full-time rôle to fill during the flight and without each of whom being present some important things wouldn’t get done.
MUCH Early flight instruction in an airplane consists of the giving of instructions like “do this,” then “do that,” then “do the other.” (In fact now that you mention it quite a lot of the later flight instruction is the same way, unfortunately. But perhaps that’s a story for another time.) Pretty soon after that… Read more »
After today’s flying lessons I came away with two thoughts of my own that might be of interest…
This is a short post about some thoughts from a flight yesterday. I was talking a new student – actually someone on their very first flight in a small airplane – through a descent to land…
Preparing a student for a flight test is one of the hardest parts of being an instructor. The early flying lessons are characterized by …