ventana7
Gold Member
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2003
- Messages
- 1,599
- Location
- Salida, Colorado
- Aircraft
- Xenon Gyroplane, Cessna 182
- Total Flight Time
- 1,000+
A question for you instructors out there.
I have seen several new gyro pilots refer to their early lessons and doing strip hops. I think Ron Menzies downloadable sylabus also has strip hops among the very first training tasks. Why?
Is this a holdover from Bensons early teach yourself to fly book? It certainly is not done in fixed wing instruction and it seems odd to saddle new students with the most difficult and dangerous flight tasks before they even have familiarity with manuvering the machine.
Rob
I have seen several new gyro pilots refer to their early lessons and doing strip hops. I think Ron Menzies downloadable sylabus also has strip hops among the very first training tasks. Why?
Is this a holdover from Bensons early teach yourself to fly book? It certainly is not done in fixed wing instruction and it seems odd to saddle new students with the most difficult and dangerous flight tasks before they even have familiarity with manuvering the machine.
Rob