"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Dudley Henriques wrote:


The accelerated program at the basic level can do the job, but doing
the
job more slowly, allowing the comprehension to advance parallel with
the
performance, is a better method for turning out a more finished and
more
safe pilot exiting the flight test and entering the self educating
phase
of a pilot's career.

I misread this sentence at first, but in an interesting way. These
accelerated courses do not, I fear, actually "do the job" more
quickly...
depending upon what the job is.

Exactly! The unwritten purpose, and indeed in many cases the written
purpose of the accelerated program, is to get you through the rating and
into the general community in a minimum time frame. Whether or not this
produces a safe pilot is a matter of individual standards.

My position on this issue is simply that the accelerated program at the
basic level through Private, graduates a rated pilot, and that this
pilot can be safe enough, but the comprehension issues lagging behind
the performance level at graduation by using a " minimum time spent in
the program" method produce a less than optimum condition at graduation,
which in my opinion again, has been proven to me at least, through my
personal experience checking out pilots coming through different
learning paths, to be not as effective a method of training as a method
that contains a time span between lessons that allows a more
comprehensive graduate, which under my personal definition, equates into
a better rounded and safer all around pilot entering the general
community.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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