About Acellerated Courses for Private

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message

Tell you what; we'll just put you down as a no vote and call it a
day
shall we.
All the best,
DH

I am not a yes or no vote. I don't know.

I'd like you to answer the following question that I've asked thee
times so
far with no repsonse:

"Either the written test & checkride is a joke and jillions of
"pilots"
unworthy of the privilege are swarming over our heads or the test &
Ride are
effective enough to weed out the worst of us and send them back to the
drawing board. It can't be both, can it?"

--
Jim Fisher

Jim;

The reason I haven't answered your question isn't because I can't, or
don't want to. It's because I'm getting from the "tone" of your posts to
me that it wouldn't matter much what I answered.
You obviously have some VERY strong pro opinion on accelerated flight
training and this opinion is different from my own. I accept that.
You on the other hand, seem to think your point about flight tests will
prove me wrong, so you keep pushing that at me.
The problem with answering you is that the premise for your question is
flawed as it addresses what I have said, and that makes it extremely
difficult to deal with what you are requesting. In fact, a lot of what
you have posted fits the same category. The reference to IFR training
for example. I wouldn't mind you disagreeing with me about IFR
accelerated training. The problem is that I don't disagree on the IFR
position and have plainly stated as much to you several times now.
I simply have to assume in these circumstances that you and I just have
to agree to disagree and let it go at that, rather than spend a ton of
bandwidth trying to get together on something we'll not be agreeing on
anyway :-)
I'll give your "question" a try here and see what happens if you like,
but I don't see us getting anywhere. Just the tone of this post to me;
"I've asked you 3 times now to answer this" is unsatisfactory to me.
The plain simple truth of it is that we just don't seem to like each
other :-) No biggie at all really.
Now to your "question".
Let me make it as clear as I can for you. Your premise that by my
standards, the flight test must produce either an incompetent pilot or
send a failure back to the drawing boards is flawed. You have totally
misinterpreted what I have said.
What I said was that I had never flown with a product of an accelerated
basic training program where that pilot didn't in my opinion need
remedial training to bring them up to what I consider to be appropriate
comprehension standards.
This shouldn't be read to imply that these pilots were unsafe. It should
however be interpreted to mean that in my opinion, these pilots might
have had better comprehension had they not taken the accelerated route.
It's simply a matter of my believing that one system is more optimum
than the other. It's not a statistical analysis; it's an an opinion, and
as an opinion, doesn't have to be proved at all.
Now, apparently you disagree with this. That's fine. By all means, push
the accelerated program if you like. I think I've gone to great pains to
allow you an uncontested opinion.

There, now I've answered your question.

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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