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Old June 5th 06, 01:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default Advice, please: too old to fly?


Jim Carriere wrote:

I think you'll find differences in organizational culture (don't I sound
like a bean-counter) between different civil and between different
military schools. I also think you'll find some brilliant, some
mediocre, and many "in between" examples in both. Neither is perfect,
but we're talking apples and oranges.


My daughter won a flying scholarship with the Canadian Air Cadets.
Canadian rules require 45 hours for a private pilot license and her
course was 48 hours at a flight school, plus a place to live for 6
weeks. All of the dozen people in her course passed within the allotted
time and many had an hour or two left for a checkout in a 172.
There were a couple of reasons they were so successfull. There is
stiff competition for these courses, and the winners are motivated,
young, smart and have done considerable work with at least the theory
of flight. The course is intense, and when you are not flying, you are
watching others fly, studying flight or hanging out with others who are
as keen as you. It is very different from taking a course once a week.

John Halpenny