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Jay Honeck wrote:
> Anyone else share these concerns? Can you REALLY learn everything you need > to fly your family safely in the clouds in just seven days? Yeah, that would have been a concern for me. I think it depends on the pilots individual personality. Cram course learning doesnt suit me; I dont retain information that way. Others dont seem to have any problem with it. It took me a few months of regular study and bi-weekly flying to get my instrument rating, and I did get it right at 41 hours total combined hood/actual time. I felt confident and comfortable in IMC after a few solo flights. Dont know whether I would have felt the same way if my only exposure to IMC (or maybe only simulated!) was in the past 7 days. Its a lot of stuff to learn. And a lot of the stuff you must learn is thrown out immediately after you get the rating and start using it. (Memorizing VOR service volumes, decoding text radar summaries, etc. is a bunch of crap you never use.) I think my retention would have been much lower if I forced that stuff in over a short period. -Ryan |
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