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At 08:54 PM 8/6/01 +0000, craig hinton wrote:
>Chronic airsickness used to be a cause for 'washout' from flight
>training for Air Force pilot/nav cadets. I guess they considered it
>uncurable. Better cures now though.

Well, yeah, but military pilot training was never known for its patience
with
anything but the quickest of studies. You didn't get very long to solo
(and
usually a PT17 at that) and the washout rate was high on any number of
what may have seemed unreasonable criteria.

You were going from primary training to what we'd consider aerobatics
in fewer than half of the hours of flight instruction than we take to get
a simple PP-ASEL. There just wasn't much room for patience with anyone
who wasn't a quick study or who was taking time to 'get used to it.' There
were enough guys who wanted to fly warplanes that they didn't need to
be patient.

So I don't think it's a good measure of reality. As they say, 'military
intelligence' is an oxymoron.

In avocational aviation we have a different situation.

Greg

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