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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 8. "RE: Wide (way out) Patterns..." 04-12-03, 20:27z  Greetings Jerry: > Here I am giving 'advice' to a CFI but, No problem. Good CFI's and good pilots are always learning. > around here many of the CFIs do start students out with an extra wide > pattern to give them the extra time to get all the details accomplished. > After it becomes less daunting for them, they tighten things up a bit > but some folks, apparently hang on to the old habits... IMHO, generally doing such a thing isn't in the student's best interest. What you've described here illustrates the law of primacy (thing learned first are learned best--e.g. harder to forget/change). As I suggested in an earlier post, it's far better to slow the aircraft down than to upset airport ops by flying super wide patterns. If the student still can't cope with the pace of things while flying at a reduced pattern power setting, I'd suggest flying patterns outside the airport traffic area for practice. My $0.02. Of course what's wide and what's WIDE are subjective, so please adjust my comments as you see fit. Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.80- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Wide (way out) Patterns...    DHamblin       03-19-03              RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    Bruce_Williams       03-19-03       1            RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    DHamblin       03-20-03       2                 RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    Ben_Chiu       03-22-03       3                      RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    jerryrosie       04-09-03       4                           RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    DHamblin       04-09-03       5                           RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    Ben_Chiu       04-09-03       6                                RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    jerryrosie       04-12-03       7                                     RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    Ben_Chiu       04-12-03       8                                          RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    jerryrosie       04-13-03       9                                               RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    ChrisBebensee       07-17-09       11         RE: Wide (way out) Patterns...    jhayes_tucson       09-23-07       10

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