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The pilot licensing requirements and the methodology used for training pilots to meet those requirements have not changed much over the past 50 years or so. Forty to fifty hours is still required for a private license and one hundred fifty to two hundred hours is required for a commercial license. The bulk of those times is used in teaching the student HOW to do this or HOW to do that. Virtually no time is spent in exposing the student to the full flight envelope of the aircraft in which he is training and virtually no time is spent in exposing the student to the real world flight environment in which he will be operating once he is licensed. These huge training gaps lead to pilots putting around out there who are not ready to handle those real world situations in which they may find themselves. This situation applies across the board from PPLs to ATP
The courses would be aimed at licensed pilots (PPL, COM and ATP) but not Student Pilots. The purpose of the courses would be to teach those real world things (blackboard and flight) that should have been taught when you got that license but which, for various reasons, were never taught. The philosophy is fairly simple. Human beings tend to retain (and act on) those things which they have experienced before. As a brief example, have you ever attempted a High Density Altitude, Heavy Weight take-off? If you haven’t, then you don’t know what to expect out of the little bird when that time comes and you are more likely to make a mistake leading to………..a very bad day. That mistake is what this particular course would aim to prevent by exposing you to actual High Density Altitude, Heavy Weight take-offs OR to recovery from an un-balanced, accelerated stall OR to recovery from a fully developed spin OR to an abrupt aft stick pull to the aft stop at Va OR to flight at Vne OR to flight at the Service Ceiling (it’s a different little bird up there). How about engine failures on the runway, at 10 feet or 200 feet or 500 feet AGL and how do you go about using the available energy to get the bird back to the airport should you decide to do that, etc, etc. The list is long and the student gets to choose the course he (or she) signs up for. If you’ve got your own airplane, we do these wonderful things in your bird (strongly recommended). If you don’t, we supply the airplane (a tail dragger and a tricycle gear), take your pick.