Today's blog post is contributed by T.Kachira, a flight instructor with Toronto's Island Air Flight School and Charters.
Photo by skuenti Imagine a scenario: You're on a routine cross-country flight. Then something happens that requires to change plans. That could happen for any number of reasons: weather unexpectedly closing in on you; the headwind is far stronger than you realize and you can't make it to the original destination; your passenger suddenly falls ill and you need to land and seek some help for him ASAP. Time for a diversion!
No doubt you've covered (or about to cover) the procedure for executing a diversion in the course of your flight training. But have you internalized its purpose?
Sometimes new students concentrate so much on the procedure taught, they find themselves getting lost in minor details, to the detriment of the overall purpose of the exercise.
It is always useful to hear a perspective of an experience instructor/pilot on an exercise, and I recently had the privilege to sit on a PPL flight test debrief with a very experienced and enthusiastic examiner, who, among other things, shared his insights into this exercise with us.
No doubt you've covered (or about to cover) the procedure for executing a diversion in the course of your flight training. But have you internalized its purpose?
Sometimes new students concentrate so much on the procedure taught, they find themselves getting lost in minor details, to the detriment of the overall purpose of the exercise.
It is always useful to hear a perspective of an experience instructor/pilot on an exercise, and I recently had the privilege to sit on a PPL flight test debrief with a very experienced and enthusiastic examiner, who, among other things, shared his insights into this exercise with us.