Scudrunners

Seems that aviation is now several everyday things that have faded from everyday no big deal things into mystical and magical stories and folklore.


NDB approaches
conventional gear (totally ironic name now)
Nordo
Map reading
fly by the ass of your pants
Actually having fun
Blow pots




I'm sure there can more to the list  ;D

Pretty much any navigation technique that isn't GPS based.


Dead reckoning, compass, VOR...


Oh, and flying off grass.

I understand that they are not going to paint centre lines on new runways anymore because most of today's instructors have no idea what they are there for.



How did flight training get to this level of incompetence?


Sixty years ago we received out PPL in thirty hours.


We learned on more demanding airplanes.


Navigation was more demanding.


Exams were hand written answers, not the multiple choice exams of today where someone with no idea of the subject can pass by making guesses at what the answer T.C. wants is.

Red cockpit lights
Stick artificial horizons
Hockey puck directional gyros
ANO's and Air Regs

Prop starting an aircraft....

If these things are all mystical, I must be a wizard or something.

I remember them all...taught them all...the Adcock Range...lost orientation and Range approach..low level navigation...Then along came the VOR


TCCA has done a wonderful job of watering down the system to a point where I personally would not want any of the 250 hour wonders in the right seat.  I had one of these masters of the skies in the Katana and when I went beyond 30 * of bank she was panicking because the school taught that as the limit for steep turns.  When I later demonstrated 80* bank, 360* turns she was really screaming.


Thanks TCCA