Is there evidence that competence-based training outperform other kinds of training? Question posed by Marcello Tobar on LinkedIn Competence-based training is popular nowadays. I wonder if there is enough evidence to state that competence-based training is better for increasing performance of trainees as compared with more traditional training…
Have you met a Telempath? Question posed by Sujatha Das on LinkedIn While reading an article, I came across this statement - "Empathy and telepathy are difficult to separate since emotions stimulates thoughts and thoughts stimulates emotions. Telempath is a term for a person that senses and interprets…
For many years now, my personal theory of the universe has been that chocolate makes the world go around, and that peanut butter holds it together. I've also thought that the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup should be the new symbol for the United Nations. So with a title…
There is a common saying among paragliders that they fall into two distinct groups: those who have landed in trees, and those that will land in trees. I may have just moved from one group to the other... I'm not sure. All this past week, I have been…
Google Earth Landmarks Today was an absolutely awesome flying day at Tiger, and definitely a personal-best. It was probably one part good fortune, one part practice, and five parts listening to and remembering the words of wisdom that so many other pilots imparted to me over the last…
On Saturday, it started out as such a beautiful day at the Fort … It ended up being simultaneously the best flying I have ever had there, and also my worst day flying ever. Around 3:00pm there was a steady westerly wind of about 5-8 MPH. It was…
Today was a great day flying at Whidbey once the winds died down just a tad from their more forceful morning gusts. I arrived around 12:30 in the afternoon to find that there were maybe 25 pilots either scattered about the launch area, else huddled in masses for…