<\/h3>\nMy first flight instructor and the guy who soloed me was Dwight Thomas at the JAX Navy flying club in Jacksonville, Florida.\u00a0 I never thought I\u2019d return to Jacksonville, but years later I was sharing offices and hangar with the Holiday Inn Aerobatic Team just up the road in Fernandina Beach.\u00a0 There was a high school kid named Dave, who would come out and drool over the team\u2019s cool Pitts Specials.\u00a0 He was a good kid and a gifted pilot.\u00a0 It was because of the latter ability that I gave him some dual in my 100 HP Cub.\u00a0 He did well.\u00a0 It was only well later that I found out he was the stepson of my first instructor.\u00a0 What a shock!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20170530_155300-1024x576.jpg\")
David Standel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/h3>\nMaybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve recently been reunited with David Standel, that former airport kid who now is a father of three and a 747 pilot, or maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve noticed how many things have been totally disregarded by some of my students!\u00a0 Either way, I\u2019m reminded of one thing about that first solo.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI\u2019d flown with CFI Dwight for a few lessons and had about ten hours of dual.\u00a0 Dwight had insisted that I hold the control wheel by one side of its \u201cram\u2019s horn\u201d shape.\u00a0My other hand was expected to be on the throttle if I was either maneuvering or in the pattern.\u00a0 He was a stickler on that, even though his own right hand held his control wheel in the middle.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nWhen Dwight got out and told me to take it around about three times, I was flushed with the thrill of the first solo.\u00a0 But not so flushed that I remembered everything he\u2019d taught me.\u00a0 No, as soon as I lifted off the pavement of the runway at Herlong Field, I moved my hand to the middle of the control wheel of that little Cessna and flopped my right arm over the now-empty seat back beside me.\u00a0 The cat was away and the mouse would play.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/h3>\nDavid Standel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/h3>\nMaybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve recently been reunited with David Standel, that former airport kid who now is a father of three and a 747 pilot, or maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve noticed how many things have been totally disregarded by some of my students!\u00a0 Either way, I\u2019m reminded of one thing about that first solo.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI\u2019d flown with CFI Dwight for a few lessons and had about ten hours of dual.\u00a0 Dwight had insisted that I hold the control wheel by one side of its \u201cram\u2019s horn\u201d shape.\u00a0My other hand was expected to be on the throttle if I was either maneuvering or in the pattern.\u00a0 He was a stickler on that, even though his own right hand held his control wheel in the middle.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nWhen Dwight got out and told me to take it around about three times, I was flushed with the thrill of the first solo.\u00a0 But not so flushed that I remembered everything he\u2019d taught me.\u00a0 No, as soon as I lifted off the pavement of the runway at Herlong Field, I moved my hand to the middle of the control wheel of that little Cessna and flopped my right arm over the now-empty seat back beside me.\u00a0 The cat was away and the mouse would play.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/h3>\nMaybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve recently been reunited with David Standel, that former airport kid who now is a father of three and a 747 pilot, or maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve noticed how many things have been totally disregarded by some of my students!\u00a0 Either way, I\u2019m reminded of one thing about that first solo.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI\u2019d flown with CFI Dwight for a few lessons and had about ten hours of dual.\u00a0 Dwight had insisted that I hold the control wheel by one side of its \u201cram\u2019s horn\u201d shape.\u00a0My other hand was expected to be on the throttle if I was either maneuvering or in the pattern.\u00a0 He was a stickler on that, even though his own right hand held his control wheel in the middle.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nWhen Dwight got out and told me to take it around about three times, I was flushed with the thrill of the first solo.\u00a0 But not so flushed that I remembered everything he\u2019d taught me.\u00a0 No, as soon as I lifted off the pavement of the runway at Herlong Field, I moved my hand to the middle of the control wheel of that little Cessna and flopped my right arm over the now-empty seat back beside me.\u00a0 The cat was away and the mouse would play.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\nI\u2019d flown with CFI Dwight for a few lessons and had about ten hours of dual.\u00a0 Dwight had insisted that I hold the control wheel by one side of its \u201cram\u2019s horn\u201d shape.\u00a0My other hand was expected to be on the throttle if I was either maneuvering or in the pattern.\u00a0 He was a stickler on that, even though his own right hand held his control wheel in the middle.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nWhen Dwight got out and told me to take it around about three times, I was flushed with the thrill of the first solo.\u00a0 But not so flushed that I remembered everything he\u2019d taught me.\u00a0 No, as soon as I lifted off the pavement of the runway at Herlong Field, I moved my hand to the middle of the control wheel of that little Cessna and flopped my right arm over the now-empty seat back beside me.\u00a0 The cat was away and the mouse would play.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\nWhen Dwight got out and told me to take it around about three times, I was flushed with the thrill of the first solo.\u00a0 But not so flushed that I remembered everything he\u2019d taught me.\u00a0 No, as soon as I lifted off the pavement of the runway at Herlong Field, I moved my hand to the middle of the control wheel of that little Cessna and flopped my right arm over the now-empty seat back beside me.\u00a0 The cat was away and the mouse would play.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\nI guess it\u2019s a good time to ponder about what things a CFI teaches are really important.\u00a0 Although Dwight\u2019s insistence on how the control wheel should be held and when the throttle should be held seemed important at the time, their importance has to be compared to the student\u2019s ability.\u00a0 Today, after many years of insisting on \u201cone hand on the throttle\u201d and \u201chold that control wheel by one side\u201d, I now tend to totally ignore the grip on the control wheel and to only insist on the throttle being held by those primary students who may over flare and then need a little goose of power to slow the resultant downward flight of the airplane.\u00a0 When I became a CFI I found that many, if not most, CFIs didn\u2019t teach the Dutch Roll.\u00a0 Dwight did.\u00a0I think it\u2019s because he was more concerned with coordination than other CFIs.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my overriding concerns, and as a result I teach both the Dutch Roll and what I call the \u201cQuick Turn\u201d in order to emphasize the importance of coordination. \u00a0I even tried to go Dwight one better and teach some of my more apt students a maneuver that I still haven\u2019t perfected.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cDutch Touch\u201d and it consists of Dutch rolls close to the ground, each rolling movement resulting in a touch of a lowered wheel to the runway.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\nIn the year\u2019s since that solo, I\u2019ve thought about Dwight\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a flight instructor.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 But there is one ability that never occurred to me when I was a student.\u00a0And now that I\u2019m a teacher, it has become of critical importance.\u00a0 It\u2019s the ability to protect that student while he learns, it\u2019s the ability to let the student go just as far as possible before taking action and saving him from himself.\u00a0 It may be one of the most important skills a CFI can have and, yet, it goes unnoticed by the student.\u00a0 To this day, I have no idea how well that ability was developed in Dwight, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was pretty well-ingrained in him.<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\nAnd today I find that most students will either forget or intentionally leave out something that I taught them.\u00a0 After all, learning to fly encompasses a whole lot of stuff!\u00a0And some stuff we tend to reject once we\u2019re on our own.\u00a0 After all, when the cat\u2019s away, the mice will play!<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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