LSA / SP rules ?

[WaspAir]

We have an autographed picture of Armstrong in one of our ships, hanging on our glider club wall, from a visit he made here to fly a glider in our Pikes Peak wave currents. We were well known for motorless flights well above 30,000 feet, with a state record about 44,000 then (don't know the current record).

 

[Vance]

On this tangent most people seem to be writing about fixed wing or helicopter pilots as if they all had the same level of skill an knowledge.

I had a client who had recently learned fixed wing and was moving to gyroplane. He had misunderstood much of what he had been taught to fly fixed wing and would confuse it with what he was misunderstanding about what I was trying to teach him.

It defiantly took more time to unwind the puzzle for him.

I have had three fixed wing pilots trained at the Edwards test pilot school and I seldom had to explain things or demonstrate things more than once. I felt comfortable signing them off for their check ride in less than half the time most people take.

I had a flight instructor who taught carrier landings in an North American OV-10 and he was even faster to learn how to fly a gyroplane.

He would explain aloud what he was doing during each of the practical test maneuvers.

I learned a lot from all of them.