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Old 08-20-2014, 08:18 PM
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The sad part is, as an airline guy, my multiple choice answers would be:

1) Ask for direct.
2) See if he has a heading for that.
3) How do you spell that fix again?
4) Was he calling us?

Flying the last of our hardballs a few years ago, we had a jumpseater ask "how do you guys know where you are going?"

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Old 08-20-2014, 11:03 PM
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Love to fly in the clouds. If it's sunny flying doesn't excite me but if it's raining I can hear the airport calling. Been averaging 2 to3 approaches a month in the SF Bay Area. Won't do it without GPS though. That's too much risk for me.
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Old 08-21-2014, 05:47 AM
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On to the XC and checkride...
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Old 08-21-2014, 06:47 AM
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On to the XC and checkride...
Congratulations! I bet your head is swimming with information, now to let that settle and get back into the air!!

I had 3 instrument instructors. One took me 95% of the way. I could not nail the approaches (ILS in a round gage 182). I got a highly recommended guy that took a pointed with a presentation pointer and tidied up my technique, he would whack my hands if not in the right place, doing the right thing, and would tap that needle when I needed to act. Never said a word. In one hour he had me nailing every approach, something the last guy could not do in 10 hours. I figured that "pass" may be good enough for written, but was not good enough to keep me alive. A fantastic experience and well worth the effort.

This is a graduate degree.
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Old 08-21-2014, 11:31 AM
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I respectfully disagree. It's called Sheppard Air - for the SINGLE purpose of passing the written. A huge difference between passing a written and actually learning and maintaining functional knowledge, but with the FAA still asking antiquated and absurd questions, I'll take Sheppard Air's approach every time. Knock out the written and be able to dig into the books, charts, and plates and focus on really learning.
Shepard Air is a popular choice among my students and is good if you go through the database. However, there success places them somewhere in the 80th percentile and the students that go through the database multiple time average in the higher 90's. I'm not mocking the 80's, because it is a really great score but we all know that a well done written sets the initial tone for a DPE. Some ways work for some and other ways work for others. I am just stating facts that I have accumulated over many years and hundreds of students that have gone through my class!
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Old 08-21-2014, 06:14 PM
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...but we all know that a well done written sets the initial tone for a DPE...
No...have to disagree with that. Having asked that question of four DPE's, their unified response was there is no correlation with a knowledge test score and the passing of the oral & practical test.
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