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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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If this is the case, there shouldn't be a major difference between
the
"traditional" method and the "accelerated".

Much has been learned in recent years about the adult capacity to
learn and
methods for enhancing adult learning. It has been repeatedly
demonstrated, for example, that cramming for a course ensures short
term
results at the expense of long term results. Anybody with a college
education understands why its better to study, consider and digest
material
over the course of a term than to cram for everything at the last
minute.

I don't see why people think learing to safely operate an aircraft is
any
different. If you learn everything in a very short period you simply
do not
have time to consider what you have learned, to chew on it and develop
questions and think about the individual things, or to apply them.

We didn't learn to walk in ten days. How in hell can we expect to
learn to
fly in the same?

-c

This is exactly correct.

It's the period BETWEEN flight lessons where the REAL learning in flying
takes place. It's here, with the pressure off, and the student relaxed
and MENTALLY ENGAGED back into what he/she did in the airplane with the
instructor, that the student has the chance to think back (I call it the
re-run syndrome :-) and put together what he/she did in the airplane
as a rote function,then couple that rote function with the thought
process that produces the much needed comprehension factor that is an
absolute MUST if long term result is the goal, which of course it is.
:-)
The result of this type of learning is " Ah HA!!!!!!!!!!! So THAT'S
why it works that way!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A MUCH safer and more informed pilot!! :-)))
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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