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16.    U.S. CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY

6. That if he is slow and constantly in difficulties in applying instruction, no amount of perseverance will overcome this.

This is another lazy view and a defeatist view as well.  Many slow and mediocre students have become outstanding pilots due almost entirely to hard work and perseverance, plus the ambition and determination not only to learn, but to learn well.

7. That the instructor will teach him to fly and that success is merely a matter of compliance with the instructions given. 

The apt student will use his solo periods to the best advantage and learn for himself, due to interest and curiosity. 

The lazy student will learn very little during solo and wait for the instructor to teach him, spending his solo periods in sightseeing rather than practice.  Actually, things learned by experience, rather than verbal instruction, are more enduring.  This is the reason for practice periods.  The student who wastes solo is simply wasting time and money.

The nervous or apprehensive student will waste his solo periods in aimless straight and level flying and in trying to screw up his courage to practice the maneuvers he has been assigned.

8. That pilots fly by a super sense, called feel, which is the happy endowment of only a few privileged super-individuals.

"Feel" is a term used to express the summation of the impressions transmitted by all the senses used while flying. Flying is learned thru the use of the senses, guided by intelligence and reason, which every normal person possesses.  None of these are new or unusual.  They only have to be developed and their messages correctly interpreted as applied to flying.  These impressions may not mean much to the student at first, but if intelligent questions are asked, the instructor can materially aid the student's progress by explaining their causes and interpreting their meaning.

In order to use these senses and correctly interpret their impressions it is necessary that the student be free from all worries and fears, even minor, otherwise sensitivity to sensation is obscured and any action must be based on conscious use of memory.

9. That the wind has a definite effect on the speed and control of the aircraft while in flight.

This is a very popular fallacy, the falsity of which will be further discussed later on.

Actually, the horizontal motion of the atmosphere or wind has no effect on the airspeed of the craft or the control of it.  Airspeed is the speed of the aircraft through the air and is only relative to the air.  Ground speed is relative to the ground and this is affected by the wind, since it causes drift the same as in the case of a free balloon.

10. That "bumps" are dangerous and may cause loss of control. Bumps are perfectly normal atmospheric phenomena caused by convection currents, either thermally or mechanically induced.  These should be thoroughly explained to the student.  Air, like water, is a fluid, though of much less density.  In addition, it is invisible, which causes the lack of understanding of its natural phenomena by the average person.

There is a common human tendency, in too many cases, to be too easily satisfied.  This is particularly true of those who are too inexperienced