This quote comes from the 'introduction' of the 'Fly Better' books. The link was given in another thread on the forum, but I thought what the author was trying to say about FLYING was part of the advice being given here:
I have taken teenagers flying who have never been in an aeroplane before and, within 15 minutes, had them looping and rolling the aeroplane themselves, whilst I recorded them doing it with their own video camera. Yet this amazing adaptability seems to be ‘beaten’ out of them when they take ‘formal’ flying lessons at a ‘standard’ flying school; it is replaced by a confused ‘hotch potch’ of do’s and don’ts based upon some obscure theories and their flying instructor’s own inhibitions, and it is replaced by a plethora of rules and procedures, most of which are about ‘air transport’ and not about ‘flying’.
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