Laps in the Pattern Flight instructors are no strangers to the traffic pattern. To develop our students’ skills, we coach them through as many landings as we can. Closed circuits in the traffic pattern are a common way to cram plenty of landings into a tight block of...
How We Practice Matters In this series we’re examining what psychology can teach us about training better. Specifically we’re looking at the life work of Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, co-directors of the Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA. The Bjork’s...
Desirable Difficulties Earlier we discussed UCLA Psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork’s research on learning and forgetting. They argue that introducing “desirable difficulties” into training is beneficial. While they seem to slow our short-term...
Desirable Difficulties Psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, directors of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA, have invested decades of research in understanding how people learn new things, and how we forget them. Their research has pointed to a number...
Sometimes in an effort to save our students money, we end up costing them something far more valuable. Learning to Fly is Expensive On Facebook a while ago I read a thread of instructors debating how much hands-on flying was appropriate for the instructor to perform. ...
Do you hate practicing power-on stalls? If so, you’re not the only one. For many pilots, a departure stall performed at full-power feels as close to an unintentional spin entry as you can get. Our palms sweat a little as we see the high pitch attitude and...
