Originally Posted by
labbats
I'm civilian from the ground up, never flew military. Either you're good pilot from the start or you're not. I firmly believe there is something to be gained by flying a single engine prop in and out of a pattern. When I commuted and a 300 hour guy was landing the crosswind technique just wasn't there. People crash into the ground, not the sky and crosswind technique isn't taught in a sim or a book.
This is very true. When you get to training its no longer flight school. Either you know it (hopefully) or you don't. Nobody has the time to teach you or reteach you how to do a crosswind landing or how to fly an airplane. Its go time when you walk into that sim and you need to be able to handle it.
Flying in and out of the pattern is fun...even more fun in an ATR.
