"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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"gatt" wrote in message

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

Using the same logic, why only four years of college? Why not extend that
to 8, 12 or more?

Four years is a long time. It's not ten days. I took five and a half years
because I couldn't take all of the elective material I needed for what I
wanted to do in only four.

A dedicated individual can get an advanced degree in as little as two
years
if he wants.

Still, I would question the robustness of that education. I mean, you can
get a degree from Devry, or some other agency over the internet without
having to take classes at all, but it might not be worth the paper it's
printed on.

If you are to take that stance, you must dictate what the "proper" amount
of
time would be. Is 45 days enough? 60? 160?

It shouldn't be measured in terms of hours or days, but at what point the
student pilot is qualified to become a private pilot. We already know that
the 40-hour legal minimum is unrealistic for most people and that some take
up to 80 hours or more.

At exactly what level is efficiency traded for overload?

That's a good question. I bet a guy could do his master's thesis by
comparing BFR data, or by somehow retesting pilots across all types of
training schemes, and get good data.

Answer: There is no answer. Accelerated is probably good for some,
probably not for others. That's for me to decide and not some old school
CFI who knows only one way to teach.

Depends on whether you're the student who doesn't know aileron from upper
camber or a private pilot who has used his 10-day PP/SEL for a couple of
hundred hours.

Me? I've got a clean record and every instructor, examiner and BFR
instructor I've had has told me I'm a better-than-average pilot for my time.
But I'll still defer to the old school CFI who has probably encountered and
survived countless situations about which I still have no idea. (My DE flew
a tour P-51s and by 1945 was back stateside training young Air Corps pilots,
and was still an instructor/examiner in 1988. I defer unconditionally.)

The FAA doesn't see a problem with it, though, so at this point it's just an
interesting subject to discuss.

-c