Mike;
Unless I'm misreading something, you two are almost together on this.
Dudley
"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
There are two aspects to flying, knowledge and the act of actually
controlling the airplane. I agree that knowledge is best built up
over a
period of time but, from my own experience, I believe that the ability
to
learn new muscle-based activities is accelerated in an immersion
enviornment. If you wanted to learn to juggle would you practice
every day
for seven days or once a week for seven weeks?

Mike
MU-2


"gatt" wrote in message
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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