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From: rah@netcom.com (Richard Hyde)
Subject: Re: How to Log 20 Hours without Soloing
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St Stephen Ames (stephen@stephenames.com) wrote:

: Didn't you know that a different plane or even the same plane with a
: different CG or whatever will requir a lil different feel?...Of course
: you did, so again I ask what have you learned?...You just keep
: experiencing...You know what you're doing, obviously, but when you said
: you learned something new, I don't see it that way...If you didn't know
: a different plane or CG location would change things then you learned
: something...We don't all necessarily get better with experience but we
: keep experiencing, I don't call that learning(my turn to nit pick,
: hehe)...That's what I meant, most will still say you are "learning", but
: I disagree, you already knew it you just "applied" it under different
: circumstances...

Semantics, for the most part.  If landing today does anything towards
improving your landing tomorrow, then I'd say you have "learned"
something.  It could be intellectual learning, or an improvement in
physical coordination - still learning.

In an ideal world, we SHOULD all be getting better with experience,
some more, some less.  I don't know how much incremental learning
Chuck Yeager was doing at his peak, but I'm willing to bet he
was still learning with each flight.

Cheers,

Rick

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