Slow Flight - AUSTRALIAN FLYING Mar/Apr

[poteroo]

I'm interested to hear from both RAA and GA pilots about how much emphasis was given to slow flight in their courses, and whether they agree with the articles' conclusions.

 

happy days,

 

 

[Bidgee]

If you mean by conclusion that more emphasis should be placed on slow flight I'm not sure I agree. Initial training should get the student to a basic level of competency that enables them safely pilot the a/c while making them aware of other areas of expertise.

 

This is similar to any tertiary study. Go and study the basics and then continuing study on your area of interest/requirement. If you have a need for a lot of slow, low level flight then go and do training in that area. The article focussed on landing on short strips in PNG. Similarly there are plenty of pilots that frequently land on short strips around Aus. If you have a need to do this then spend more time in training for it.

 

If we build a very high skill level on every part of the syllabus it will end up 150hrs long and there will be no "recreational flying".

 

My training involved the usual slow flight for precautionary land and short field stuff but no more that the ops manual requires. I'm comfortable with the training but will also keep practising it to improve.

 

Scott

 

 

[Thx1137]

Outside of the normal slow flight regimes we have during training I have had two other exercises. If I did poorly I guess I might have had more.

 

Basically, we were flying along at low altitude at 60kts and two stages of flap and "checking-out the scenery at the beaches" and other sight seeing. My take on this is that he was wanting to see how well I could fly slow while having my attention drawn outside to non-aviation tasks.

 

As Scott says, we should practice to improve proficiency. I love it when the instructor is on the ground and I can practice some things while doing a nav.

 

Steven.