sary for preparing for other professions. A law or medical student spends several years in college and emerges the holder of a diploma. The diploma is really only a permit to gain experience, for the young lawyer or physician must sometimes work for a long period before being considered thoroughly competent.
I had just passed voting age when I turned up for flying instruction. Most of my first lesson consisted in explanations on the ground. I was shown the two cockpits in the plane and I learned that the instructor sat in the after-one and the student in front. I saw the rudder bar and stick and was told that during instruction these controls are connected so that every movement made by the instructor is duplicated in the student’s cockpit and vice versa. Obviously, therefore, the experienced pilot is master of the situation at all times, and can correct any mistakes made by the pupil, or show how manœuvers should be executed. Much the same system could be illustrated by imagining automobile driving being taught by utilizing two steering wheels, duplicate brakes, throttle, and so on.
Piloting differs from driving a car in that there is an added necessity for lateral control. An automobile runs up and down hill, and turns left or right. A plane climbs or dives, or turns, and in addition tips from one side to another. There is no worry in a car about whether the two left wheels are on the road or not; but a pilot must normally keep his wings level. Of course, doing so becomes
