On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:55 AM, Marian Petrides wrote:
The difference is that flight instruction is a structured learning environment with literally one-on-one instruction from the CFI (certificated flight instructor).
This is fun, just like hanger flying.
A newbie to Dreamcard has to learn their way around the interface, get a handle on the concept of stack/card/object and THEN try to use the tool. To be fair, I have not yet tried the video tutorials (except for the first) but unless I miss my guess, while you are watching the videos and trying to absorb what they are teaching, your 10 hour time clock is ticking away.
Well that is either like taking off without the tail and rudder or worst leaving the airport on an empty tank. Is the only way to view the videos with Dreamcard?
You need time for the concepts to sink in before you can begin trying to apply them. Heck, since the only way to access the online dox is to have the IDE running, you can't even print up a getting started manual to look through offline without eating into your precious 10 hours.
Back to the flight school analogy: Try leaving the student pilot with his ground school manuals, Microsoft Flight Simulator and an airplane. Then tell him he has 10 hours to learn to fly the sucker. Can he do it? Sure, if he's Chuck Yeager. Mere mortals with real jobs and real family distractions, maybe not.
M
That's an interesting analogy. You are expected to pass ground school before you take the less expensive version of flight-training. So knowledge of how to navigate, contact the tower, cross-wind components, FARs, weather, airport traffic procedures, flight-control uses, and maybe the exact flight characteristics of the training plane including the V-speeds for takeoff and the approach to a stall speeds are. What's missing is the instructor signing off on proving that the student can do it. Proffency can be tested in less than a half of an hour. Many times the student is not prepared for learning. In regards to Dreamcard it would be nice to have a ground-school for potential Dreamcard beginner programers. Then the ten hours would be more than adequate.
It has been reported that the airplane flew directly to the scene of the crash.
just my two touch&goes.
Mark
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