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- 1956 Cessna 172. No letter after the 172, it's too old.
Here is an interesting article on a fascinating concept in flight training: "katas".
For those of you not familiar with the term, "kata" is the Japanese word for what we in other martial arts call a "form": a prechoreographed sequence of techniques used to help the student learn the techniques as well as learn how to transition between them. They are often learned in a particular sequence, in order of increasing difficulty of the techniques involved.
Frank and Niklas Nierhoff (father and son) created three katas for gyroplane flight training to help teach all of the maneuvers and techniques on the checkride as well as other maneuvers that one should know for safety reasons.
Here is a second article where the pilot who was working on his gyroplane add-on rating describes how it all fit into obtaining his add-on rating.
My Google-Fu seems to be weak at this point and I am having difficulty finding the contents of these three katas. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any sites where one can find this information?
For those of you not familiar with the term, "kata" is the Japanese word for what we in other martial arts call a "form": a prechoreographed sequence of techniques used to help the student learn the techniques as well as learn how to transition between them. They are often learned in a particular sequence, in order of increasing difficulty of the techniques involved.
Frank and Niklas Nierhoff (father and son) created three katas for gyroplane flight training to help teach all of the maneuvers and techniques on the checkride as well as other maneuvers that one should know for safety reasons.
Here is a second article where the pilot who was working on his gyroplane add-on rating describes how it all fit into obtaining his add-on rating.
My Google-Fu seems to be weak at this point and I am having difficulty finding the contents of these three katas. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any sites where one can find this information?