One thing that I took away from the visualization article is that our bodies can't tell the difference between an experience that we vividly imagine and a real experience. This means that when you vividly visualize an experience such as flying it can be just as effective as being inside the airplane. I always knew that chairflying helped me out a lot especially with all of the checklists in multi-engine, but I never knew how effective visualization could actually be.
Some things that I thought were interesting in the Mastering the Landing section were the points about vision and the rollout. The interesting thing about vision was the fact that as a student you will have to put your primary focus in just the right spot down the runway. If you look too far down the runway then you will not be as accurate in judging your relative motion and height will be reduced, this also may slow your reactions as it appears that there is no need for action.The point about the roll out that I liked was using the technique of bringing the student close to the runway and giving the student all of the controls except for the throttle to let him/her get a real feeling of the controls close to the ground and the control movements that are necessary to make a good landing. I feel that this would be very helpful for the student and really help with their confidence to land.
An important bit of information that I took from the Future Captains article is that as a pilot has to be confident in his/her actions. "Flying is as much about attitude as it is skill". The sooner a student learns this, the easier it will come to them in the future when they get into a situation that they really need to be confident in their actions and decisions.Another teaching tip I took away from the article was to teach your student to be professional on the radios from the very first flight with them. If you do this early on, than it will be natural for the student to do it for the rest of his flying career. However, if you don't it will instill bad habits. With this subject it is also important to remember that as instructors we are the ones that the students are going to emulate, so we must also be professional at all times.
Its amazing how the body cant tell. Thats why you heare instructors tell their students to chair fly, and it is readily apparent when they do not. Attitude is huge in developing a captain. Starting from the first flight will do your students more than them trying to figure it out once they are captains. Remember primacy.
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