Fly The Plane: Easier Said Than Done?

A wise old instructor of mine told us not to panic. He said he’d tell us when to panic, and then said OK, panic now.

'“Pilots must maintain tanker qualification every six months to stay proficient and capable for training and combat scenarios.” I hope they don’t lose the proficiency needed to find the throttles, but as a USAF public affairs weenie, I see it was written by an Army Guard NCO. :laughing:

From what I’ve seen in GA, you have to OVERCOME training and rote memorization in order to handle real emergencies. For example, private pilots still try and fly square patterns with full flaps when they lose their engine and are just barely within clean gliding distance to an airport (because that’s how they were told to land).

Stick and rudder skills (x3) , turn down the radio if you really need to and continue flying until the airspeed is pegged at “0”.

I never taught my students anything like that.

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