AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 2014 - 76

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had difficulty holding an exact airspeed,
but usually overcame the rust in three
flights.
It's knowledge of regulations that goes
first, it seems. Aviation Adventures begins
with a discussion of the dilemma facing the pilots-currency-and moves on
to weather basics. Airspace is a key issue,
and with that comes radio skills: what
to say to whom, and how to say it. The
Air Safety Institute has a course for
radio skills called Say It Right: Mastering
Radio Communications.
What about the IFR pilot? I assumed
that rusty instrument pilots forget how
to navigate the software in their GPS
receiver or in their glass cockpit. I was
wrong. Rusty pilots have more trouble
with reading approach charts than with
basic instrument flying. Buttonology skills
are quickly regained.
The first instrument skill to go, based
on Aviation Adventures instructors' experience, is task saturation. That usually
occurs when the pilot is hand flying an
instrument approach, setting up radios,
and loading-then activating-the procedure in aircraft with that requirement. It's
popular for individuals to claim they have
multitasking skills, while psychologists
counter that until there is an evolution
in human DNA, the human brain does
not multitask well. Hence the car accidents while texting. As was the case with
VFR pilots, IFR pilots find that after three
flights they are back in the game.
Tasks you once did with aplomb may
seem like an impenetrable wall as the
rust builds, but instructors at Aviation
Adventures have found it is a wall easily
breached.
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EMAIL alton.marsh@aopa.org

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