Fearless Tower
Touchdown! Greaser!
What a royal pain in the arse!
So, I'm slowly working on the CFI stuff and right now, most of my flying these days has been doing practicing pattern work and commercial maneuvers from the right seat. I've gotten pretty comfortable flying the plane and talking through stuff while flying on the other side, so yesterday, I thought I'd shake things up a bit and log a couple approaches flying from the right. We had some actual here, but ceilings were relatively high and it was the typical thin marine layer that we know so well in SoCal so I was comfortable trying it out (I've flown IFR from the right seat before, but that was in VMC).
Let's just say I sucked - the two approaches I did were technically within PTS standards (never got more than 2 dot deflection and was within 100' on the altitude), but I was all over the place on the localizer and I attributed this to my scan across the panel. As I would move my eyes off the AI and DG to check the DME, adjust frequency/ pwr etc...I would sense the plane banking and sure enough looking back at the DG, I'm 20 degrees off my heading. I'd correct and the process would repeat.
Any CFIIs ever experienced this? Any recommendations for a good scan across the panel? Seems like flying the plane with my head looking to the side is what is driving me nuts.
So, I'm slowly working on the CFI stuff and right now, most of my flying these days has been doing practicing pattern work and commercial maneuvers from the right seat. I've gotten pretty comfortable flying the plane and talking through stuff while flying on the other side, so yesterday, I thought I'd shake things up a bit and log a couple approaches flying from the right. We had some actual here, but ceilings were relatively high and it was the typical thin marine layer that we know so well in SoCal so I was comfortable trying it out (I've flown IFR from the right seat before, but that was in VMC).
Let's just say I sucked - the two approaches I did were technically within PTS standards (never got more than 2 dot deflection and was within 100' on the altitude), but I was all over the place on the localizer and I attributed this to my scan across the panel. As I would move my eyes off the AI and DG to check the DME, adjust frequency/ pwr etc...I would sense the plane banking and sure enough looking back at the DG, I'm 20 degrees off my heading. I'd correct and the process would repeat.
Any CFIIs ever experienced this? Any recommendations for a good scan across the panel? Seems like flying the plane with my head looking to the side is what is driving me nuts.