"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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Suppose that the flight test were conducted three weeks after the last
flight
the student actually took. Comparing the accelerated students with
the
standard curriculum students, which do you think would be more likely
to pass
this delayed flight test?

My feeling (just that) is that the standard curriculum students would
be in a
better position, since their knowledge, gained over a long time, will
probably
remain a long time. The accelerated students, it would seem to me,
would be
more likely to have forgotten stuff over the three weeks they were not
flying.

OTOH, it might be that those three ("inactive") weeks would provide
enough time
for the information to gell, and the accelerated students would do
better than
they would have earlier. (whether this would be better than the
normal
curriculum students with a delayed flight test I don't know)

Anybody with actual datapoints here?

Jose

The mistake a lot of the people in this thread seem to be making is that
zeroing in on the flight test and trying to use the results of the
flight test to establish an ACTUAL quality level for the pilot at that
point in time doesn't equate. All the flight test does is establish that
the pilot being tested has met a MINIMUM STANDARD.
You can get a pass/fail ratio for accelerated training opposed to other
forms of training at the test point, but getting a handle on the ACTUAL
QUALITY or the high end comprehension and performance levels of a
specific pilot at that moment in time is another matter; much more
difficult to determine, since the upper levels of a pilot's performance
capabilities are by definition, NOT required, nor are they even tested
by the examiner giving the flight test.
To establish these parameters, an entirely different type of flight
check is necessary; an actual limiting parameter flight check. This is a
highly specialized flight check.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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