It is essential that medical men of the highest class should be in the vicinity watching the condition of the men in training, for his timely advice will often save the loss of a promising pupil and a 1,000 guinea machine. The instructors, too, can give his services, for his' judgement is perfectly balanced by experience and he is conversant with the problems of all types of flight. He knows every symptom from "wind vertical" to utter incompetency. The writer has flown over 2,000 hours and has been an instructor at a military school, having pupils ranging from university men to back 0' beyond bushman, and Japanese, and he is of the opinion that the steady though perhaps somewhat slow type of mind and nerve is the foundation for the flying gen Having got the! man, the thing to do is not at once to drench him with sensations but to dose him and mix his experience with absolute idleness on the ground.
First of all you simply give your pupil ten minutes' spins, put him up to tips on banking, trying him at turning, tipping his nose, dropping, and occasional minutes with the joy stick all on his own. Tu a few weeks he will be ready for diving and "zooming." All of which means that the evolution of the airman is a slow and scientific process in which the human ma-chino gradually gets trained to the various altitudes.
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