Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Flight Training Recommendation

Sims for LSA are a pretty good waste of time IMHO.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@...> wrote:
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> While I know that many instructors would disagree with me, I would argue
> that sims and sport pilot are not a good match. Sims are fine in my
> book for learning button pushing like your G1000 and procedures for
> larger planes (C172 and up) where you fly on instruments and on
> procedures but if you look at the LSA accident rate is is abismal
> because of the "big" airplane pilots who are good at that sort of thing
> but who are transitioning to LSAs and lack the fundamental stick and
> rudder skills to handle an LSA. LSAs are all about stick and rudder and
> seat of your pants flying and you just can't adequately simulate that in
> a sim.
>
> Helen
>
> On 5/8/2012 9:16 AM, L. Bruce Jones wrote:
> > What is happening at Redbird is that the sims are used by students until they can demonstrate they meet the private practical test standards for each maneuver. Only then do they go to the airplane. I have not asked the average number of actual aircraft hours necessary to achieve the private certificate at Redbird, but I will. Even the full motion sims only cost 60 cents an hour in power consumption.
> >
> > It's a very powerful and convenient way to teach that minimizes costs and allows for things like total G-1000 familiarity and spin training. People's time is more productive as well. If the weather is bad you can always do sim work. In areas where there are long periods of lousy weather, students can make progress, and just as importantly, young CFIs can stay gainfully employed.
> >
> > The same techniques used at Redbird would be highly effective for Sport Pilot as well.
> >
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