{"id":5107,"date":"2019-02-07T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:51","slug":"224-bad-training-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/224-bad-training-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"#224 Bad Training Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written in September, 2018<\/p>\n

By<\/p>\n

Brian Lansburgh<\/p>\n

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There is a woman who I fly with occasionally.\u00a0I trained her for a tailwheel endorsement some time ago and occasionally she asks me to fly a bit of dual with her.\u00a0She is perhaps the best example of bad training baggage I\u2019ve ever encountered.\u00a0 First of all, her talent for flying is amazing.\u00a0 She is a natural.\u00a0 But Acme got their hooks into her when she was a newbie.\u00a0 Because of the frustrating qualities of the old primacy rule regarding what you learn first being what you learn best, she often drives me nuts with this stuff.\u00a0 One day we were inbound to a controlled field.\u00a0 We\u2019d been cleared to land, and we were perfectly configured to enter the pattern on a left base.\u00a0 We were on that base leg.\u00a0 There was no other traffic.\u00a0 Gradually, she began a left turn away from the airport.\u00a0 When I asked just what she was doing, she replied that she was going to a point from which she could turn back and enter on a 45-degree angle.\u00a0Wow!\u00a0 That got my goat.\u00a0 I could hear one of my earliest teachers, airshow pilot Bill Warren, lecturing me that \u201cwhen you\u2019re going to the airport, go to the flippin\u2019 airport\u201d.\u00a0 I think I left out the \u201c\u2026ya moron!\u201d part of that exclamation (as well as cleaning up the adjective “Flippin’ that I have ascribed to Bill in order to clean up his language a bit.)<\/h3>\n

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Not the same plane, but similar country.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

So, I transmitted to the tower, \u201cWe\u2019d like a short approach\u201d.\u00a0 The controller may have not known what we were planning, but I think I might have seen the tower lean a bit as all the controllers ran over to his station to watch this arrival.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re cleared for a short approach,\u201d the controller replied.<\/h3>\n

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With that clearance and a minimum of prompting from me, she did what she could do so well:\u00a0 She swooped for the runway in an extremely short approach and landed in a turn, making the first turnoff.\u00a0 You could practically hear the applause from the tower cab.\u00a0 And THAT is what I mean when I say that someone has superb skill and bad training.\u00a0 Maybe someday she will leave all that training in the dust.\u00a0 I sure hope so, because on that day she will have unlocked the terrific pilot that is now struggling to be set free. \u00a0And she will have a lifetime ahead of her of Happy Swooping.<\/h3>\n

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Brian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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