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is! While kiosk simulators are a good tool, everyone misses the whole point of ground school being more than just the touch and feel of controls. You want to change? Then start with the learner’s permit. Teach students to think like a pilot, then touch like a pilot, and then feel like a pilot. It may be tradition, but why is the bookwork done after the seat time? I’ll hold out for a company that can solve teaching the boring stuff first and then offer the simulator as the reward. Robert A. Piacente Douglaston, New York
FINAL EXAM

In the October issue, “Final Exam” question 6, “Which is true about homing when using ADF during crosswind conditions?” you gave the correct answer as being that homing will result in a curved track to the ADF. If properly done, by interjecting the correct drift correction, you will track directly to the beacon. In my day, we made sure to teach students how to do this, as if it was not done, it would be nearly impossible to accurately shoot an ADF approach. Dan McCaffery Chesapeake City, Maryland
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I noticed that on page 13 of the latest issue of the magazine ("Get Around,” October 2012 Flight Training), you recommended trying to land at every airport in your home state. I have already done that here in New Jersey. As of about a year or so ago, I have landed at every paved, public airport in the state, including Newark. I am 67 years old and belong to the 150th Aero Flying Club based out of Morristown. Larry Cutler Morristown, New Jersey
CORRECTION

In “How it Works: Voltage Regulator,” (October 2012 Flight Training), some of the story was inadvertently cut off. It should have read, “From here, the regulator goes to work essentially turning on and off a switch rapidly that tells the alternator to produce power.” Flight Training regrets the error.

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Flight Training - December 2012

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