#197 Training with paper before iPad and cockpit organization...

Hey, day 197, coffee with Kenny. And I'm traveling today, so I wanted to make a video real quick to stop for some food break. And I was jumping out watching a thunderstorm off to the east. It's wild looking. So I got this question from a young man, a member, just starting out, and he's like, hey, Kenny, I just went my first solo and I was really struggling with keeping track of traffic and my paper charts. And the collective was dropping on me. And he said, he goes, I'm struggling because my instructor wants me to learn with paper charts and all the paper before I start using the iPad, which I think is great. And I think we should still do that as brand new, you know, for brand new students, still break people in on the sectional charts. I know it's a pain in the butt, but I'm still a believer in we need to have those basic skills of using paper if we have to. Learning to navigate without a GPS because it's difficult and it's a skill, but boy, it's a good skill when your GPS goes out or doesn't work or you're flying an older aircraft, doesn't have a gps, I think it's good to learn those basic skills. And a thumbs up for his instructor that wants him to do paper before moving into the iPad. And he said, you know, what are some tips for organizing myself in the cockpit? I know I need practice with it. And I guess the first thing that comes to mind is, you know, sitting in the aircraft when you got some time alone, hopefully at the flight school he's at, he could go in there and practice and practice sitting in there, practice how your knee board works. He said in his email, he goes, I didn't have a knee board on that trip and now I've got one. So good for you using a knee board in the beginning. Well, a knee board is great anytime that you need to keep things organized. But good for you, good for your instructor. Learn the paper charts, sit in there and practice. So you went on a cross country, you didn't have an E board, now you've got one. So use that, sit in the aircraft, put it on your leg, you can learn. Start playing with the charts and learn how to fold them. And you can fold them just right. So when you do a cross country, you can mark it all out and fold it just right so you can flip it right. You can easily, with one hand, slide it out, flip it, and even if you have to do it a couple times and this can be difficult Right. It's a real pain in the ass using sectional chart in an aircraft. Okay, we know this but it's still a super valuable skill that I think everybody needs to have. So my advice is go on the aircraft, get some time. When you got 15, 20 minutes, a half an hour and get in there and put the knee board on and practice. When you're using paper stuff you all really need across countries is a sectional chart in that little green AFD book. I don't even or supplemental. It's now the char supplement, probably even hard to get anymore. But if you want to true the true power, the true paper route, you can use a chart. And that little AFD or chart supplement book will save your butt for six or seven bucks. That's all you really need. So again, jump in the aircraft a little bit alone time and just practice with it and figure out left, right leg, right leg depending on which aircraft you're flying and which aircraft your pic ing and I don't know, he didn't say which aircraft he's flying. Doesn't matter. You need to get in and practice. Maybe even have your instructor jump in with you again in the hangar just laid back environment. And also make sure you learn and get good with all the switches without looking, you know, make sure you know whether you've got carb heat or anything. You're doing collective friction, all these different things. Just practice with looking outside and knowing where these things are at. And one of the guys that taught me a lot of stuff early on that I mentioned quite often, you know, he kind of spanked me in the beginning when I got one of those checkouts, right. And, and he's like, you need to learn this stuff, you need to go out there and sit in the helicopter practice. And he was right. He goes go out there and learn and know exactly where everything is. Frictions, carb heat and the different things that you're going to maneuvering with. Learn how to get your hand to most of those so that you can be looking outside focusing on your flying. And you're not looking down over here, you're not looking down over there, you're not lurking down over here. Learn those things and get good with those movements from for with practice sitting in the hangar when it's not costing you $300 an hour or $400 an hour, you can do it in a load back, load back, laid back fashion, you know, by yourself. And the same thing like with going through checklists, you can learn your startup and shut down. You can learn a Lot by going out in the aircraft and just sitting there and practicing and going through the checklist and doing kind of a pretend startup. You know, you're not actually going to start the engine but keep the battery off. So you don't run the battery down, but go through the motions and play with the buttons and switches. So for this young man, you're gonna get better at it. Everybody has struggled with that in the beginning where you're struggling with everything you got going on. It's a learned skill. Continue to work with your instructor. I love the fact that he wants you to do paper first. I know for you that hate paper. It's still a good skill to have and a good skill to start out with. Learn those basic skills with paper and then yes, the iPad is freaking awesome and the iPad can do so much and that's a fantastic tool. Not saying it's bad, I'm just saying I still think for initial training we all need to know how to use charts. You know, even flying ems, they come out and said, guys, you know, in this day and age of GPS's, it's all great, but you're all commercial pilots. Do not lose your good VFR skills of flying without electronics. They go because, you know, things happen, satellites go down and we're still going to be flying, especially in emergency situations. So do not let your VFR skills, the old skills of charts and E6Bs and using your head not just following a line, you know, being able to do a diversion, being able to compute in your mind, fuel, being able to commute or compute a diversion, find a heading. You know, the, the new world we live in, technology is great, it's awesome and we all love it, right? But you can't totally 100 rely on that. So again I'm gonna wrap it up so I can get moving on down the road. Day 197 I think I'm pretty sure I haven't been on YouTube today. 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