I love people who respond to but a single line out of an entire post.
Apparently I don't put enough of these
or these
in my posts for most of you to read between the lines, my bad. But for example here's what I've said so far:
I wrote:You're right in the fact that the standard training manual is inadequate. But on the other hand its one of those things you only learn by doing. I do, we do, you do. In other words standard practice should be the student listening to his instructor do radio calls on the first few flights, then the instructor guiding the student through them, then finally the student doing all the radio work and the intructor critiquing. And I've just given you the "benchmark" to study above. The keys to good radiowork isn't rote memorization, its listening and learning. Pay attention when your instructor is on the radio, and I usually will critique a particularly bad radio call we hear so the student knows what not to do (It never stops them, but you gotta keep trying) Lastly, I quiz them on what someone else is saying on the radio. I'll say it again: PAY ATTENTION.
In other words, I was actually agreeing with Hi Maint and trying to provide what ideally should be done on the part of the instructor and student to learn how to do proper radio work but I didn't see anyone quoting this. hmmm.
I wrote:No offense but if worrying about what people are going to say about you on the internet is what you're worrying about while you're flying: GROW UP!
Now here I've been taken completely out of context many times, and once again some good advice for our friend Hi Maint. What someone says on the internet is just heresay. You people take this stuff too seriously. And truth be told, I've had students who've brought these problems up in the past, it goes like this: "I was reading on the net that this guy says my cherokee handles icing very well and I was wondering..." Needless to say you shouldn't take everything here for gospel.
That's not to say you should take anyting I say for the truth either. Who knows? I might be some thirteen year old yanking your chain from my parent's basement?
(I can't wait for the next post that only quotes
that!)
Read between the lines, in all my ranting you might find a Kernel of wisdom that you can use for yourself. Or at the very least it gave you other instructors something to read while you're waiting for your next student.
