William, now you made me really angry by your inability to understand things. You cannot mix pears & apples. Nobody is perfect prepared for every extreme situation which might happen due to certain circumstances, which cannot be anticipated (see volcanic ash cloud, giant waves in the ocean, earthquakes, helicopter falling down mid in town, etc.), but everybody can be prepared to master nearly every "variable" in his or her profession by proper training, which simply begins with understanding how things work or how the rules are. The proper training includes exercises as well, but the exercises alone will not bring any value if the rules are not understood. Without understanding the rules & the "mechanics" of things & actions, one will remain helpless in extreme situations, no m atter inside any simulator or in reality.
Why simulators were built, dear William, you do not need to explain that to me. This is common knowledge. Or would you assume I would advocate learning these things with life airplanes & live passengers ? How stupid do you think were other people ? Or would you say, I would advocate car accident experiments with life passengers instead of dummies ? Learning by doing, yes, but this is the second step, not the first. Theory comes first. Understanding. What I advocated, was: learning understand the things & rules first, but not with prechewed learn-ware. When I was in school, we did not have the system of "just mark the right answer by a cross", we had to think about the answer & formulate the answer in undertstandable sentences. Quite a difference to todays school system. But all this is not comparable with the horn. IS IT TOO MUCH, to understand & remember the scales, the harmonics & the possible fingerings ? Is it too much to find out the "alternate" fingerings ? Is it too difficult to write the several series of natural pitches, one above the other e.g. in double lines (written pitch & concert pitch) BY YOURSELF, to find out the alternating fingerings ? Way too much for many, it seems. PS: Do you know, who constructed the first ejector seat ? _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
