We’ve been listening to the complaints—often justified—of the erosion of stick and rudder skills of modern pilots, of overreliance on automation and of pilot graduates of “puppy mills” who can’t make a crosswind landing.
While there are rarely simple answers to problems in the real world, we happen to think that there may be a good way for a pilot to reduce the risk of looking stupid in an NTSB report after a loss-of-control event in an airplane: Add on a glider rating.