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Feature Article: Instructional Safety
When teaching the safest possible flight operations you can
show a student how poor decisions doing the same maneuvers could
be proportionately more dangerous. I do this almost without thinking
about it in my home flight arena. In a low visibility situation
today I chose to get all the radar help I could by getting an
IFR clearance for practice work in the vicinity of a VOR. With
the next student we did vertical-S airspeed practice. I had the
student depart by requesting a climb in pattern to above a cloud
layer before flying to the VOR. We then tracked upwind on a radial
that I knew would be relatively safe and then tracked crosswind
for a period before returning downwind on another radial over
an under cast that was most likely to be avoided. The fact that
we never saw an airplane doesn't mean anything for certain but
it was a nice flight. I began instruction in 1968 and I lay some
credit to the fact that instructional accidents have fallen nearly
every year up to the present. At least I have not contributed
to the accident rate.
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