Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
Integrated method of flight instruction should include the instruments but the emphasis should be on the outside.
If a student is over relying on and can’t keep their head outside then yes it’s a good lesson to cover it up.
But that’s to his instructor.
or the instructor could be providing the visual pitch reference for level at various airspeeds/power settings. This would set up the positive transfer of learning later for instruments. How to quantitatively measure this visually and describe it is the key. The “attitude” indicator should be used for every transition/change and in this case the “attitude” indicator is straight ahead outside. The turn and slip for instance only tells you that you’ve already screwed up/what has already happened while rolling into the turn, they should be able to match the yaw with the roll visually, which again only comes from looking straight ahead while doing it in my experience.