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MidlifeFlyer · July 30th, 2005, 19:55

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I think a lot of students have trouble with the words "level flight attitude", "max pitch down", etc.. Its doesn't give them a visual on what this looks like. I must admit that I even have trouble explaining that.

[/ QUOTE ]I don't understand what you are saying. You get in an airplane, take off, gain altitude, set up a cruise speed, establish level flight, and look out the window. What you see is "level pitch attitude" for you, in that airplane, with the seat set at that height.

If a commercial applicant doesn't know what a level pitch attitude looks like, he needs to go back to primary training (actually, he probably used to know what it was before instrument training destroyed it).

July 30th, 2005, 19:55	#22
MidlifeFlyer Old Skool Join Date: May 2003 Location: Denver Colorado Posts: 3,113	Re: help with lazy eights [ QUOTE ] I think a lot of students have trouble with the words "level flight attitude", "max pitch down", etc.. Its doesn't give them a visual on what this looks like. I must admit that I even have trouble explaining that. [/ QUOTE ]I don't understand what you are saying. You get in an airplane, take off, gain altitude, set up a cruise speed, establish level flight, and look out the window. What you see is "level pitch attitude" for you, in that airplane, with the seat set at that height. If a commercial applicant doesn't know what a level pitch attitude looks like, he needs to go back to primary training (actually, he probably used to know what it was before instrument training destroyed it).