{"id":4645,"date":"2017-12-15T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:53","slug":"194-tole-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/194-tole-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"#194 \u201cIf I tole ya once\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cHe who hesitates is lost\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

(written 3-16)<\/p>\n

I was getting him ready to solo, so I was very concerned with emergency procedures. \u00a0After all, no teacher of flying wants to see a soloed student end up with a bent airplane (or bent student) when proper training could save the day.\u00a0 \u00a0It seemed natural to fail his engine as he was climbing out on a close-in cross-wind leg (we customarily turn crosswind as soon as we reach the departure end of the runway).<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0Cammi Benson while still a student pilot is temporarily distracted by the camera right before her engine is cut.\u00a0 Cammi is now a Private Pilot and is the only graduate of our primary flight training program to not only start as a Young Eagle, but to become a Young Eagle Pilot. Some of her passengers on her first Young Eagle flight were older than she was.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Since most of my students just can\u2019t stand to keep their hand on the throttle while in the pattern, it was easy to take advantage of that lapse and simply reach over, turn his carburetor heat on and close his throttle.\u00a0 Since he should have been thinking about what to do if it got quiet, an immediate turn back to the runway for a landing downwind should have been pretty much a piece of cake.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t turn.\u00a0 I waited.\u00a0 Then I waited some more.\u00a0 Then I started directing him to turn and he did.\u00a0 That delay caused our turn to final to be really<\/h3>\n

low (This is why I am so often criticized by whuffos, who don\u2019t realize that the student, not the instructor, is responsible for a lot of what we do! I\u2019m there to keep them out of serious trouble).<\/h3>\n

There is another issue, lurking in the shadows of what this rant appears to be about.\u00a0 That issue is the fact that of all the things I attempt to teach, only a relatively small percentage is getting through (Part of that is because of \u201cthe<\/h3>\n

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Wade Holmes gives up his shirt tail after his first solo. Wade is NOT the subject of this article.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Primacy rule\u201d).\u00a0 Since I am a believer in the old wheeze, \u201cWhen the student fails to learn, the teacher has failed to teach\u201d, this reflects very badly on me.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll just have to suck it up and keep trying to become a better teacher.<\/h3>\n

I often tell my students that I only have two roles: one is to teach and the other is to protect.\u00a0 However, it takes two to tango.\u00a0 I can protect my students from their own screwups if I\u2019m sitting there next to them.\u00a0 But what about when they are by themselves, or with others while they are acting as the pilot in command!\u00a0 If they fail to heed my teachings at that time, there\u2019s not a flippin\u2019 thing I can do about it. I will not be on the dance floor, Tangoing with them.<\/h3>\n

I suppose that there are a lot of tests by which we can tell when someone is ready to solo.\u00a0 But it may be that what I described at the beginning of this \u201crant\u201d is the most important.\u00a0 Until that student can execute the turn to a proper landing spot WITHOUT HESITATION, he\u2019s not ready to solo.<\/h3>\n

Next time, I think I\u2019ll give him a partial power loss.\u00a0 That\u2019ll be interesting\u2026.<\/h3>\n

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[1]<\/a> This article was written a while back. \u00a0He’s now a Private Pilot and a very good stick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Or \u201cHe who hesitates is lost\u2026\u201d (written 3-16) I was getting him ready to solo, so I was very concerned with emergency procedures. \u00a0After all, no teacher of flying wants to see a soloed student end up with a bent airplane (or bent student) when proper training could save the day.\u00a0 \u00a0It seemed natural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4652,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645"}],"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=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}