It is admitted that the art, of instruction is difficult from the lecture platform, but how much more arduous when weaving circles at 5,000 feet, with an invisible tyro in control. Confidence is born quickly in these high altitudes, but since the system looks to the instructor, rather than to the pupil, the strain on the former is commensurate with the added advantages extended to the latter.
“A CENTAUR OF THE AIR.”
88TH SQUADRON—CAMP BORDEN.
Herewith a few excerpts from an admirable syllabus issued by the Air Ministry in this connection. They are curt, valuable and saturated with experience:—
“Put the pupil in the pilot’s seat from the very beginning.