The first time I ever flew behind a modern flat panel display it was a Garmin 1000 in a brand new 182.\u00a0 The owner had asked me to help him learn to land his new airplane.\u00a0 He had no problem with the display.\u00a0 In fact, he gave me a bit of a tutorial on it during our first flight.\u00a0 I think I helped him with his landings, but more importantly, we succeeded in uncovering what is now a commonly understood drawback of these PFD\u2019s and MFD\u2019s.\u00a0 This pilot had a tendency to look too closely at that display.\u00a0 Since it could show traffic (if that traffic had a transponder), he was beginning to assume that the traffic shown on his screen was THE traffic.\u00a0 We all know about this disturbing tendency.\u00a0 I\u2019m certainly not the first aviation writer to cover this subject.\u00a0 This debate has roots that go way back and it\u2019s useful to know about those roots.<\/h3>\nPilots twenty or thirty years ago were all taught that they shouldn\u2019t count on all<\/h3>\n![\"DSCN3410\"](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN3410-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a>No flat panel display in this Cub!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nairplanes being equipped with radios or those radios being properly used to announce position in a pattern or elsewhere. That made sense, and most newly trained pilots were doing a pretty good job of keeping their attention outside the cockpit so they could spot those NORDO (\u201cno radio\u201d) aircraft.\u00a0 But something has changed.<\/h3>\nYou can now somewhat safely assume that there will not be a NORDO aircraft in the traffic pattern.\u00a0 I said it was a somewhat safe assumption.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t say that there would not be one such airplane in that pattern.<\/h3>\nI was one of them just a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Ferrying an airplane back to Sisters, I decided to swoop in to Sunriver and get a bit of practice.\u00a0 My PTT switch had been threatening to quit and it did just that.\u00a0 Another guy taxiing for takeoff had no idea I was there.\u00a0 As he reached the end of the runway which he was mistakenly using as a runup area, he took his time.\u00a0 So I went into \u201clurk\u201d mode, staying overhead and close, ready to swoop in and land.\u00a0 He concerned himself with his pre-flight check and never did a 360 to check the sky.\u00a0 I\u2019ve left that one off myself.\u00a0 I may not again.\u00a0 Then he took off and I swooped in right behind him, did a little work on the runway and turned it into a touch and go.\u00a0 Climbing on course, I overtook him and gradually flew past. I even waved at him. He never saw me.<\/h3>\n![\"DSCN2145\"](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN2145-300x284.jpg\")
<\/a>“…I even waved at him as I went by…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt\u2019s pretty obvious that this pilot was not thinking about NORDO aircraft.\u00a0 Was it because he had a Garmin 1000?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so\u2026 he was flying a J-3 Cub.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he was depending on that radio.\u00a0 You know, the one on which I couldn\u2019t be heard.<\/h3>\nWe have an issue with pilots not keeping their heads out of the cockpit.\u00a0 It is not a simple issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to deal with all the reasons for this shortcoming:<\/h3>\nTIS (traffic information service) displays have a tendency to lull a pilot into thinking that they display ALL the traffic.\u00a0 They certainly don\u2019t.<\/h3>\nBecause the MFD shows so much information, a pilot will tend to fixate on it as it displays terrain, navaids, instrumentation and the location of the nearest ATM.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the modern, complex stuff that pilots are becoming dependent on.\u00a0 One of my most talented occasional students still panics when I cover her turn and bank, airspeed and turn off her GPS.\u00a0 She shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Whatever happened to \u201cfly the flippin\u2019 airplane\u201d?<\/h3>\nModern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“They tell you that they are North when they are South. They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,35,67,119,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>airplanes being equipped with radios or those radios being properly used to announce position in a pattern or elsewhere. That made sense, and most newly trained pilots were doing a pretty good job of keeping their attention outside the cockpit so they could spot those NORDO (\u201cno radio\u201d) aircraft.\u00a0 But something has changed.<\/h3>\nYou can now somewhat safely assume that there will not be a NORDO aircraft in the traffic pattern.\u00a0 I said it was a somewhat safe assumption.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t say that there would not be one such airplane in that pattern.<\/h3>\nI was one of them just a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Ferrying an airplane back to Sisters, I decided to swoop in to Sunriver and get a bit of practice.\u00a0 My PTT switch had been threatening to quit and it did just that.\u00a0 Another guy taxiing for takeoff had no idea I was there.\u00a0 As he reached the end of the runway which he was mistakenly using as a runup area, he took his time.\u00a0 So I went into \u201clurk\u201d mode, staying overhead and close, ready to swoop in and land.\u00a0 He concerned himself with his pre-flight check and never did a 360 to check the sky.\u00a0 I\u2019ve left that one off myself.\u00a0 I may not again.\u00a0 Then he took off and I swooped in right behind him, did a little work on the runway and turned it into a touch and go.\u00a0 Climbing on course, I overtook him and gradually flew past. I even waved at him. He never saw me.<\/h3>\n<\/a>“…I even waved at him as I went by…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt\u2019s pretty obvious that this pilot was not thinking about NORDO aircraft.\u00a0 Was it because he had a Garmin 1000?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so\u2026 he was flying a J-3 Cub.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he was depending on that radio.\u00a0 You know, the one on which I couldn\u2019t be heard.<\/h3>\nWe have an issue with pilots not keeping their heads out of the cockpit.\u00a0 It is not a simple issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to deal with all the reasons for this shortcoming:<\/h3>\nTIS (traffic information service) displays have a tendency to lull a pilot into thinking that they display ALL the traffic.\u00a0 They certainly don\u2019t.<\/h3>\nBecause the MFD shows so much information, a pilot will tend to fixate on it as it displays terrain, navaids, instrumentation and the location of the nearest ATM.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the modern, complex stuff that pilots are becoming dependent on.\u00a0 One of my most talented occasional students still panics when I cover her turn and bank, airspeed and turn off her GPS.\u00a0 She shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Whatever happened to \u201cfly the flippin\u2019 airplane\u201d?<\/h3>\nModern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“They tell you that they are North when they are South. They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,35,67,119,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I was one of them just a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Ferrying an airplane back to Sisters, I decided to swoop in to Sunriver and get a bit of practice.\u00a0 My PTT switch had been threatening to quit and it did just that.\u00a0 Another guy taxiing for takeoff had no idea I was there.\u00a0 As he reached the end of the runway which he was mistakenly using as a runup area, he took his time.\u00a0 So I went into \u201clurk\u201d mode, staying overhead and close, ready to swoop in and land.\u00a0 He concerned himself with his pre-flight check and never did a 360 to check the sky.\u00a0 I\u2019ve left that one off myself.\u00a0 I may not again.\u00a0 Then he took off and I swooped in right behind him, did a little work on the runway and turned it into a touch and go.\u00a0 Climbing on course, I overtook him and gradually flew past. I even waved at him. He never saw me.<\/h3>\n<\/a>“…I even waved at him as I went by…”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt\u2019s pretty obvious that this pilot was not thinking about NORDO aircraft.\u00a0 Was it because he had a Garmin 1000?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so\u2026 he was flying a J-3 Cub.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he was depending on that radio.\u00a0 You know, the one on which I couldn\u2019t be heard.<\/h3>\nWe have an issue with pilots not keeping their heads out of the cockpit.\u00a0 It is not a simple issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to deal with all the reasons for this shortcoming:<\/h3>\nTIS (traffic information service) displays have a tendency to lull a pilot into thinking that they display ALL the traffic.\u00a0 They certainly don\u2019t.<\/h3>\nBecause the MFD shows so much information, a pilot will tend to fixate on it as it displays terrain, navaids, instrumentation and the location of the nearest ATM.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the modern, complex stuff that pilots are becoming dependent on.\u00a0 One of my most talented occasional students still panics when I cover her turn and bank, airspeed and turn off her GPS.\u00a0 She shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Whatever happened to \u201cfly the flippin\u2019 airplane\u201d?<\/h3>\nModern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>It\u2019s pretty obvious that this pilot was not thinking about NORDO aircraft.\u00a0 Was it because he had a Garmin 1000?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so\u2026 he was flying a J-3 Cub.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he was depending on that radio.\u00a0 You know, the one on which I couldn\u2019t be heard.<\/h3>\nWe have an issue with pilots not keeping their heads out of the cockpit.\u00a0 It is not a simple issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to deal with all the reasons for this shortcoming:<\/h3>\nTIS (traffic information service) displays have a tendency to lull a pilot into thinking that they display ALL the traffic.\u00a0 They certainly don\u2019t.<\/h3>\nBecause the MFD shows so much information, a pilot will tend to fixate on it as it displays terrain, navaids, instrumentation and the location of the nearest ATM.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the modern, complex stuff that pilots are becoming dependent on.\u00a0 One of my most talented occasional students still panics when I cover her turn and bank, airspeed and turn off her GPS.\u00a0 She shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Whatever happened to \u201cfly the flippin\u2019 airplane\u201d?<\/h3>\nModern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TIS (traffic information service) displays have a tendency to lull a pilot into thinking that they display ALL the traffic.\u00a0 They certainly don\u2019t.<\/h3>\nBecause the MFD shows so much information, a pilot will tend to fixate on it as it displays terrain, navaids, instrumentation and the location of the nearest ATM.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the modern, complex stuff that pilots are becoming dependent on.\u00a0 One of my most talented occasional students still panics when I cover her turn and bank, airspeed and turn off her GPS.\u00a0 She shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Whatever happened to \u201cfly the flippin\u2019 airplane\u201d?<\/h3>\nModern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Modern flight instruction adopted the integrated method of flight instruction many years ago.\u00a0 Every maneuver is taught with both attitude AND instrument reference.\u00a0 This encourages the pilot\u2019s attention to be on the gauges right from the start of primary training.\u00a0 No amount of \u201clip service\u201d on the part of flight instructors will lessen the baggage this technique creates. And even an airplane such as a J-3 with \u201csteam gauges\u201d can con a flier into failing to look out the windshield.<\/h3>\nAlso, the diminishing number of aircraft either not equipped with a radio or equipped with one that\u2019s not functioning has had a disturbing tendency to keep our heads inside and not looking for traffic.\u00a0 And if that weren\u2019t enough, an incredibly high percentage of pilots who are equipped with a radio announce their position incorrectly!\u00a0 They tell you that they are North when they are South.\u00a0 They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!<\/h3>\nInterestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Interestingly, it\u2019s instrument training that offers hope to remedy the problem.\u00a0 Instrument training stresses \u201cthe scan\u201d and the scan, properly adapted to VFR flight in simple airplanes, will keep the pilot\u2019s head out of the cockpit except for necessary scans of some instruments, most notably the oil pressure gauge, which is the most important gauge in most airplanes.<\/h3>\nIn another article in the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, you\u2019ll see an article concerned with landing pilots having \u201ctunnel vision\u201d because the normal landing is so challenging to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same issue.\u00a0 We should all keep our heads on a swivel.\u00a0 It only takes one time, one missed collision, to make this practice one of the most important you will ever develop.<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Swooping (and scanning!)<\/h3>\nBrian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“They tell you that they are North when they are South. They call \u201cright downwind\u201d when they are left and they even call the wrong airport or runway! No wonder we can\u2019t find \u2018em!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,35,67,119,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}