"Flying Instructor's Patter"

"Patter" is the term given by flying instructors to the language they use whilst demonstrating training exercises in the air. It is a special language which must be precisely co-ordinated with control movements and absolutely lucid. Often one word has real significance; ambiguity may cause a student to misunderstand the basic aim of a demonstration. "Patter" is also a picture language because the art of flying is largley about visual cues. The good flying instructor should know these cues and a prime object of this book is to highlight them, not only in the text, but also matching pictures as seen from the cockpit of the aircraft. This is the first flying manual ever to record verbatim, the language of the flying instructor as spoken in the air. Every exercise is recorded from the most elementary to the most sophisticated.