Crash Course for Private Pilot! Please help...

On 13 Jun 2004 14:14:26 -0700, (Gen) wrote:

After a bit of googling it seems 40-60 hours of training is needed to
obtain Private Pilot's Certificate. I have about two weeks vacation

You probably won't get your certificate, but you should be well on
your way. If you are young and reasonably fit, you can certainly do
1.5 hours of air time in the morning and again in the afternoon. If
you fly in AZ you don't have to consider the weather, so you could fly
a theoretical 21 hours a week. (If you fly in New England, forget it!)

Taking lots of lessons close together will speed you up a great deal.
However, you will also be diluting the joy of the process. A lot of
people are bereft when they get that ticket: what do I do now? But
maybe that's just for those of us who spent a year or two at it.


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Cub Driver warbird wrote:

If you fly in AZ you don't have to consider the
weather,

?? WHAT?? As Dorothy once said, "Toto, do you think there *is* such a place??"

Here in AZ, we do get many clear days, and we don't get the clouds, precip or
high humidity with the regularity that a lot of places do, but we sure as heck
get very high heat and high DA to consider, and we DO get high winds with the
regularity that other places get clouds. In the middle of summer, we also have
the monsoons in all their glory, complete with towering cus, thunder,
lightning, rain, hail, microbursts and gusty winds. And they can build pretty
fast.

No weather to consider? maybe you were kidding.

--Shirley

"Gen" wrote in message
m...

QUESTIONs:
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1) Is it possible to take lessons 5 hours a day and become a private
pilot in time frame of 2 weeks or so?
2) If not what's the fastest pace you would recommend?
I am an engineer and am confident of clearing the written exam.
However I need your advice/comments about the actual flying.
Thanks in advance,
Gen

It may be possible but you will not be well trained, and you will not have
any practical experience. As an engineer you should be able to make good
choices about what is possible and what is practical. Be safe! Any accident
you may have reflects on everyone, and we all pay insurance.

Your whole premise begs another question: With so little time to train, how
do you expect to find the time to fly? If you have the time to fly a few
hours a month, that schedule is better for your training also. JMO.

I don't think he said he doesn't have time to fly, I just think he has some
extra vacation time and was wondering if he could get most of his training
done during that time.


"Noddy" wrote in message
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"Gen" wrote in message
m...

QUESTIONs:
---------
1) Is it possible to take lessons 5 hours a day and become a private
pilot in time frame of 2 weeks or so?
2) If not what's the fastest pace you would recommend?
I am an engineer and am confident of clearing the written exam.
However I need your advice/comments about the actual flying.
Thanks in advance,
Gen

It may be possible but you will not be well trained, and you will not have
any practical experience. As an engineer you should be able to make good
choices about what is possible and what is practical. Be safe! Any
accident
you may have reflects on everyone, and we all pay insurance.

Your whole premise begs another question: With so little time to train,
how
do you expect to find the time to fly? If you have the time to fly a few
hours a month, that schedule is better for your training also. JMO.

I would not do more than 3 or 4 hours per week. There is allot of skill
that needs to be learned that will not happen instantly. There is also a
lot of knowledge that must be attained in the process the should not be a
cram course.

Gen wrote:

So I want to be a pilot!
After a bit of googling it seems 40-60 hours of training is needed to
obtain Private Pilot's Certificate. I have about two weeks vacation in
July.
---------
QUESTIONs:
---------
1) Is it possible to take lessons 5 hours a day and become a private
pilot in time frame of 2 weeks or so?
2) If not what's the fastest pace you would recommend?
I am an engineer and am confident of clearing the written exam.
However I need your advice/comments about the actual flying.
Thanks in advance,
Gen