Almost a major blunder

Which part of all that was "almost a major blunder?"

The whole of it spooked me bad!

N

I've always said that "anything I can do correctly is just because I've done it incorrectly a number of times".?ÿ

And a lot of the time I tend to go ahead and screw up just to remind myself I still know how...:)

the hardest part of flight instruction is you have to let people make mistakes...always jumping in and correcting things doesn't work. I sat quietly for several minutes many times watching things unfold the wrong way from my right seat.?ÿ I never let it get too far gone except that time a gentleman put me into a spin OOPS fixed that real fast.

I'm absent minded so I have specific habits and workflows and places I keep things so I know where they are otherwise I'd be more lost than I generally am.

Like I said, Almost a major blunder.

The semi-truck locking up the brakes rattled me and quite frankly I lost all focus and when my heart got back into rhythm well heck I just went to shooting never having taken a back-sight. Fortunately the gun was pointed 90 degrees off so once I got to looking it was plain as day to see the mistake.?ÿ?ÿ

A few months ago I had a corrupt file in the data collector and even though it was set to collect raw data, it did not.

A wrong backsite was plugged in and I had to make a printout and put my wizard had on to get it corrected.

Downloaded all the files and put in a new card to hold the data.

When the screen says "corrupt file", stop and rename the file and it usually will work.

0.02

I had a raw data file delivered to me that just didn't look right when reduced and plotted.?ÿ I had to go back over it line by line to find what was wrong.?ÿ Somehow, on day two, the setting in the gun had been switched from "angle right" to "angle left".?ÿ It took some research (and LOTS of help from Carlson) but I got it figured out without having to hand enter all that data.?ÿ Data collectors were invented for people like me who are prone to "Fat Fingers".

Andy

I somehow turned off the caps lock on my VIVA GNSS Controller. It's a little more than annoying...

Any help, anyone can offer, will be greatly appreciated!

TIA

Dougie

Posted by: Dave Karoly

the hardest part of flight instruction is you have to let people make mistakes...always jumping in and correcting things doesn't work. I sat quietly for several minutes many times watching things unfold the wrong way from my right seat.?ÿ I never let it get too far gone except that time a gentleman put me into a spin OOPS fixed that real fast.

I'm absent minded so I have specific habits and workflows and places I keep things so I know where they are otherwise I'd be more lost than I generally am.

this is on point to the discussion i was having with my instructor last week, in the middle of hood-work.?ÿ i said, basically: "i have no clue how you can sit in that seat.?ÿ i've met plenty other student pilots by now..."