"Snoopy" Snoopy is wrote in message
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I received my training at a Major University flight program that was in
the
process of taking it one step further and combining 2 year (VFR / IFR)
course into a combined accelerated schedule (1 year- maybe 3 semesters, I
got out before it became official). I was learning instruments &
approaches
VERY early. The only complaint I received on my PPL exam was to look out
the
window more often! Since I did not go pro, or even finish the IFR - I kind
of wish I did not learn that way, so flying a minimum equip. craft
wouldn't
scare the snot out of me. ;-) But I could shoot an ILS to minimums without
breaking a sweat!



By the time my students soloed they could maintain altitude and heading, do
constant airspeed climbs and descents and standard rate turns to headings
under the hood. They normally soloed with about 10-15 hours logged.

Allen