Originally Posted by
block30
Wow! Really? That is impressive.
I remember nearly being nailed to a proverbial cross for allowing a student to be with me on the controls for takeoff and landing on the second flight. Even though the Jepp and Gleim syllabus call for it (go figure).
Well....for one thing remember that these are winged pilots. They already have nearly 250+/- hrs of flight time. Takeoff - flying to/from a working area and landing ought to be less than awe inspiring by now. I'm assuming that in your example above that this is the second time your student as been at the controls! Hey Bunk - when do you guys let students start landing the T-34s again?
How do you guys work a four flight solo?
Back on track:
1st flt - they do all ground ops and takeoff, fly to the area, do a series of aircraft handling drills, see the working area and the course rules to our promary divert, and then back for multiple practice carrier landings.
2nd/3rd flt - instrument round robins. All grd ops, t/o and ldg, TCN approaches and GCIs (usually PARs)
4th flt - safe for solo checkride. grd ops, t/o, enroute procedures, more advance aircraft handling, divert fam (if not done on 1st flt) and then back to the field for circuit landings.
Basically we need to see that they can start up the plane, do all the grd ops, get themselves out to and back from the area following all the rules/regs, and back into the landing pattern and then show safe and controlled passes and landings.
Now comes the FUN part
USMCFLYR