Alex Perry writes: > I was trained on the "^" "*" "O" "V" series of scans. The "V" is > different yet equivalent to the "T" in terms of its operational > purpose and use. It is usually used when in smooth air and > straight and level cruise with nothing much going on ... your main > concern is detecting a failure.
For the PPL in Canada (and the US too, I assume) we have 5 hours of very basic instrument flight under the hood, together with an hour or so of ground briefing -- essentially, it's supposed to be enough to let us turn around and get back out of a cloud, though I don't know if the statistics show any benefit. In the ground briefing, my instructor emphasised thinking practically about what instruments matter in different situations: straight flight, a climb or descent, a turn, and a climbing or descending turn, and always then starting from the AI (or TC) and then moving out to those instruments, with less-frequent cross-checks on the others. Obviously, that would not be suitable for prolonged instrument flight, but it probably makes sense for VFR pilots who wouldn't have constant practice to help reinforce more formal scanning patterns. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
