Originally Posted by
TurboFan
IFlying an RJ is flying an RJ, flying a 152 closed traffic with a private student practicing his landings is just that as well. Two TOTALLY different things. All the landing practice in the world in a 152 won't help your RJ landings. The basics are the same for any aircraft, that's why their called basics. They are fundamental to flying. Aside from the basics I don't think much of the rest of it helps all that much.
..... I just fail to see the correlation between instructing in a Cessna and flying a 82,750 MRW jet.
By the way, hi everyone.
Gosh, i guess I have a lot to learn. I thought pitch + power = performance applied to all airplanes.... guess not.
Granted, flying a 152 won't teach one to fly coupled approaches, but the sight pictures are pretty darn similar (maybe you hadn't noticed). Case in point, circling approaches: since big planes fly faster, they have higher minima and larger protected areas (due to increased turning radius), but the sight picture is basically the same. On downwind the runway is near the wingtip or a couple inches below eye level, base turn is roughly at a 45 to the numbers or 10ish seconds beyond the thresh hold.
But, let's assume you are correct that 152 experience doesn't help with flying a big plane. Why then, do the foreign carriers with ab-initio programs even bother putting applicants in a piston single at all (or a single for that matter). Why not just put the applicants in a sim from day one with one, big commercial AMEL (or frozen atpl) check ride at the end?