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<DIV>Dylan: </DIV>
<DIV>Develop your own pattern critic/helper.</DIV>
<DIV>The next time you are teaching a newcomer to fly, mix it up.</DIV>
<DIV>After a buddy box flight with him, ask him to call you sequence while you
fly.</DIV>
<DIV>Then give him another buddy box flight, then you go up again.</DIV>
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<DIV>This sequence will do several things.</DIV>
<DIV>1: It further extablishes your credentials as an instructor</DIV>
<DIV>2: In learning to "call" for you, even if you have the sequence memorized,
he will learn the appearance of the maneuvers and, over time, with your
coaching, he will recognize the mistakes you are making.</DIV>
<DIV>3: As he gets more proficient he'll want to try some of the things he has
watched you do.</DIV>
<DIV>4: Now you have a caller, a coach, and possible someone to go to contests
with.</DIV>
<DIV>5: I am sure that all of you veteran fliers can add a bunch more benefits
that both student and instructor get.</DIV>
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<DIV>Keep in mind that not every student will be suitable for this line of
progress, but keep teaching and you will find one or two a year. We do this in
our club and have developed pilots at a rate that has had one of them as
Sportsman champion in D-1 for 6 of the past 8 years.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:38:44 -0600 "Dylan" <<A
href="mailto:mxer4fun@suddenlink.net">mxer4fun@suddenlink.net</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your Glass is half full, Matt. I have zero
pattern pilots close to me, the north Dallas gang is 2 hours away. I would
love to have Nat or anyone around with judging eyes. The local sport flyers
always say "great flight", even if the square loop was round or diamond.
Consider yourself lucky, and proudof your club. May have just been the way you
worded it, but your right Houston is a pattern Mecca. </FONT></DIV>
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