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Y'All,
I held off longer than I thought I would before jumping into the pool. I once taught a student in 31 days to his PP rating. Acelerated? No! He had money, time and motivation. I had time. We flew twice a day, three times a week for four weeks. He failed the flight test on the thirtieth day due to crosswind landings. We had flown the entire month without have to make a cross wind landing. We went up immediately after the failure and he passed the next day. Two weeks later he added his heliocopter rating. I do not teach to private pilot standards of the PTS because they are minimums. In fact all FAA requirements and standards are minimums and that is not the way any CFI should teach. Prior to the FAA requiring three hours night experience, etc. I taught my students over ten hours and never counted landings or distance. I took them on a night flight S.F. Bay tourl as well as a multiple airport flight into the foot hills of the Sierras. Even now I take my students into ten different airports to get their 50 mile distance and ten landings The FAA minimums for night are minimums. I have always taught my students SVFR procedues and allowed them to fly SVFR until the FAA stepped in and said no student SVFR. I have lost count of the number of pilots I have introduced to the desirablity of being capable of SVFR flight. SVFR is not something you want to happen for the first time to you without any training or experience. Again, the FAA minimums for SVFR are non-existent from the flight program. The above instructional areas can not take place in an accelerated program. My student do not solo in less than 20 hours. In those hours they have learned all procedures for arrival and departure procedures at airports in four different quadrants from the home field. Prior to 9/11 my students had usually spent two hours at a radar facility and another two hours at a Flilght Service Station and every third flight included a tower visit. The greatest single problem my students have is when ATC expects their procedure skills to equal their raidio skills. Student flying is not any safer since 9/11 in my opinion. Finally, I am with Dudley 100% Gene Whitt "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... "m pautz" wrote in message news:HhDIc.62946$a24.45427@attbi_s03... Joe Johnson wrote: I agree with everything except the spelling of accelerated g Proof of the premise. He took an *acellerated* typeing course. typeing??? :-)))) DH |
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