Busiest Soaring Operations?

On Aug 1, 7:13 pm, "Vaughn Simon" <vaughnsimonHATESS...@att.FAKE.net>
wrote:
> <cherokee3...@> wrote in message
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> news:1186000024.438570.42070@z24g2000prh. ...
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> > I talked with Brad about adapting his sim
> > to teaching aerotow
>
> While a sim may be useful for teaching procedural skills, I am very pessimistic
> about their ability to teach stick and rudder skills.
>
> Vaughn

im not thinking about it to teach stick and rudder skills. it would
be a great tool to teach pilots how to maintain position on tow.
possible could even be adapted to teach thermal centering techniques,
as well as crosswind landings. aerotow is arguably the most difficult
thing to learn for soaring pilots, particularly pilots transitioning
from powered flying with no aerobatic or formation experience. lots
of tows are spent simply trying to maintain position and there is a
lot of money to be saved by using a sim to teach this skill.

coordinated turns and all that other stick and rudder stuff is best
left for the air.

On Aug 2, 1:13 am, "Vaughn Simon" <vaughnsimonHATESS...@att.FAKE.net>
wrote:

> While a sim may be useful for teaching procedural skills, I am very pessimistic
> about their ability to teach stick and rudder skills.

I guess you've not used a simulator. As long as you have seperate
rudder pedals, the control co-ordination is very life-like, as is the
handling of the aircraft in general (at least as far as Condor is
concerned).

In the UK Lasham trained a pilot to almost solo standard using nothing
but a simulator. The pilot had to make the minimum number of real
launches to meet legal requirements before he really could go solo,
but he was ready for solo after just one or two real tows.


Dan