cezzna
Well-Known Member
You should use all of the available tools in the airplane to increase SA. That being said, I think a 152 has way too much for a newbie to be looking at. Your first 20 hrs. should be spent looking outside the airplane almost exclusively. Then the other stuff should be slowly introduced. All pilots should be taught to develop SA WITHOUT a moving map FIRST. If this skill isn't developed as a primary tool, the chance of it developing later is nil,(think doctors). VFR pilots should spend 85% of the time looking outside the cockpit, straight from the flight training handbook. This was lost a generation ago and it absolutely doesn't exist in the training enviornment now.