Hi Gajre539: Thanks for your great inputs.

Indeed, I had the King Schools training DVDs for PPL courses (Cleared for Takeoff). Although it put me in sleep sometimes, most of the time I found it very helpful to accelerate my learning progress and help me to understand the real-world situation in a visual environment. I enjoy it overall but I never compared that with other available training materials and I wonder if other would be better? Like you said, sometimes I found the Kings' videos are boring and their jokes made me hard to laugh.

One important fact that I didn't clarify before is that, indeed, I am currently not flying at all while I am learning all of these. The very simple reason is that I currently couldn't afford to fly. However, I have a compelling passion on flying and have a very strong desire to learn as much as I could afford now in preparing myself for future when opportunity comes. That's why learning from those training videos are crucial for me as it will give me the "flying experience" that I don't have. After all, I found the materials are very interesting and is very enjoyable to learn, and I wanna find the best videos/materials that offers the most efficient training.

You're welcome! I sent you the section on Aerodynamics from the Jeppesen Private Pilot DVD. Compare it to the video links that I posted my previous post for Sporty's/King's DVDs and see which ones you like.

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Gajre539 pretty much summed up what I was going to say.

"Although the printed materials provide all professional details, I strongly feel the video can help to reinforce and accelerate my learning process through visual experience"

True. Everyone learns a different way. For the IFR ticket, I made use of a set of King DVD's, a Jeppesen book, and the FAA books. Here's my experience:

King vids - Every single time I popped in one of the king videos, I would eventually fall asleep. I'm not kidding. I am a visual learner, and I loved the king videos for the PPL, but the IFR stuff they had was boring. I would close my eyes to "rest" them, and wake up 2 hours later on the couch, drool string in tow.

Jeppessen book - It is fairly decent. the jepp books try to make a boring subject more interesting by adding colorful pictures and drawings. But in the end, a book is a book is a book.

FAA stuff - HIGHLY bland, but covers everything you need much quicker. I wish I had known about them while in training.

In my own perfect training scenario. I'd use the FAA books, plus a study guide, plus an instructor. Of course, that is just me and you will be different. Enjoy checking out the different vids and books. I hope you find something that works for you!