Accelerated Instrument Rating

I dunno. I did a 7 day instrument rating through a community college
in Florida and was very pleased with the results. There was a real
life experience at the end which reinforced all the skills.
-G

www.geocities.com/cfidarren/ifra.htm

"HECTOP" wrote in message .. .
"Peter Bauer" wrote:
because of less time i'm interested in doing an Accelerated Instruments
Rating.

I dunno, some may express a different opinion (go ahead and flame me,
assholes , but in mine, doing an "Accelerated" Instrument Rating is like
learning to become a surgeon in 24 hours and going out trying to "save"

On 10 Jun 2004 13:20:04 -0700, Peter Bauer wrote:

because of less time i'm interested in doing an Accelerated Instruments Rating.
Some Flight Schools offer such accelerated thing.
Does anybody of you have any experience in it ?
What school has the most experience doing it ?
What do you think about it ?

Is there a real chance to get the rating in about 2 weeks ?

I have not done it myself but I have heard of people - esp. from Europe -
who did it. Most of them (with good preparation) did it in time, but IMHO
all they have afterwards is the license to learn.

Your emailaddress states you are from Germany. Be sure to have the proper
paperwork from your flightschool (I-20?) and the authorities for training
in the US (student visa).

I made the US PPL in about 1.5 weeks, but I then already have logged about
200 hours and had another PPL. And afterwards I felt like I needed another
vacation and I sure didn't want to see or fly a plane for some time. It was
too much.

Peter

#m

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Martin!!! Maaaaartiiiin!!! Can you please flame this guy for me?
'HECTOP' in rec.aviation.piloting

I attended the Sheble aviation advanced IFR program... I have nothing but
great things to say about it. I am now 6 months later, and still current.
The key to an acceleration program is study hard when your getting it, and
touch up on it every know and then. I would highly recommend the Sheble
school, the price is moderate at around $3200 in 10 days. This program works
you till your tired everyday. Personally I got done in 9 days and relaxed
the 10 day... yes and on the 10 day he rested... The residents locations
they have are very nice, and cheap for what your receiving. The coarse can
be taken in Kingman Arizona, or Henderson Nevada.
http://www.shebleaviation.com/aboutus.html

Hope it goes well....

Troy Towner-Email me if you need more info

"Peter Bauer" wrote in message
om...
Hi there,

because of less time i'm interested in doing an Accelerated Instruments
Rating.
Some Flight Schools offer such accelerated thing.
Does anybody of you have any experience in it ?
What school has the most experience doing it ?
What do you think about it ?

Is there a real chance to get the rating in about 2 weeks ?

Peter

"Troy Towner" wrote in message
...
I attended the Sheble aviation advanced IFR program... I have nothing but
great things to say about it. I am now 6 months later, and still current.
The key to an acceleration program is study hard when your getting it, and
touch up on it every know and then. I would highly recommend the Sheble
school, the price is moderate at around $3200 in 10 days. This program
works
you till your tired everyday. Personally I got done in 9 days and relaxed
the 10 day... yes and on the 10 day he rested... The residents locations
they have are very nice, and cheap for what your receiving. The coarse can
be taken in Kingman Arizona, or Henderson Nevada.
http://www.shebleaviation.com/aboutus.html


Do they have a refresher course on homonyms? :~)

"Troy Towner" wrote in message
...
I attended the Sheble aviation advanced IFR program... I have nothing but
great things to say about it. I am now 6 months later, and still current.
The key to an acceleration program is study hard when your getting it, and
touch up on it every know and then. I would highly recommend the Sheble
school, the price is moderate at around $3200 in 10 days. This program
works
you till your tired everyday. Personally I got done in 9 days and relaxed
the 10 day... yes and on the 10 day he rested... The residents locations
they have are very nice, and cheap for what your receiving. The coarse can
be taken in Kingman Arizona, or Henderson Nevada.
http://www.shebleaviation.com/aboutus.html

I'll be damned.

This question has been posted quite frequently over the years. All the
nay-sayers say it just can't be as good as your standard training. Not once
has a graduate of one of these programs ever posted to say what you said.

I had been getting quite tired of defending the accelerated programs who,
quite obviously, have merit and value for those who are man (or woman)
enough to go through such a program.

Thanks for the refreshing point of view form someone who's actually been
there, done that as opposed to a bunch of know it alls who wouldn't know
their accelerated ass from a hole in the sky.

-
Jim Fisher

"Jim Fisher" wrote:
I'll be damned.

This question has been posted quite frequently over
the years. All the nay-sayers say it just can't be as
good as your standard training.

I did it the traditional way, which was a 13-mo. slog with a very
experienced Part 135 pilot as an instructor. After I passed the 'ride
(including a re-test on the holding part) I found I still had a thousand
things to learn about the practical use of the rating.

FWIW, if I had it to do over again I'd do the PIC thing.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

After I passed the 'ride
(including a re-test on the holding part) I found I still had a thousand
things to learn about the practical use of the rating.

While I was working on the rating (in the usual way), I was also doing my
own "regular" flying. This would occasionally generate questions that I'd
bring to my CFII that he'd turn into lessons.

I also flew in all four seasons during my IFR training. I'm not sure, but
I'd assume that the "actual" hours accumulated were all across the year.

We'd plenty of times where the CFII and I were studying the weather, both
current and predicted. This was not just to make the go/no-go decision,
but also to pick where the weather would be doing what when. Our goal was
to find the worse weather (up to a point), which is not the norm, but this
was still a practical study of weather over time.

Then we'd fly in it (or not {8^).

All of these would be necessarily diluted if my time with the CFII had
included none of my own normal flying and just a few days of weather.

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote:
I also flew in all four seasons during my IFR training. I'm not sure, but

me and Stanley took off for KABE on 9/15/01, and were probably the first
Part 61 aircraft in the air in the whole country and almost got in trouble
for that. I think he told you the story

HECTOP
PP-ASEL-IA
http://www.maxho.com
maxho_at_maxho.com

Hi Peter,
I think a lot of it has to do with your own experience...

If you just got your private ticket, I would suspect that you really won't
come away after 10 days being a safe IFR pilot, even if you learn
everything necessary to pass the test. But if you have a couple of hundred
hours cross country, and don't need to spend time learning the basics (like
controlling the plane to within tolerances), you will be able to focus your
training on the real IFR stuff, and will surely be better off.

(Peter Bauer) wrote in
om:

Hi there,

because of less time i'm interested in doing an Accelerated Instruments
Rating. Some Flight Schools offer such accelerated thing.
Does anybody of you have any experience in it ?
What school has the most experience doing it ?
What do you think about it ?

Is there a real chance to get the rating in about 2 weeks ?

Peter

Peter,

everything I've read suggests that it is very well possible, if you
dedicate yourself to it. However, the key seems to be to continue
flying IFR at high intensity for a while after getting the rating.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)