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Originally Posted by FloridaGator
1) Military equipment is the best. Aircraft, Simulators, etc. Military Instructors are typically only 18 months removed from their first flight as a student (200 hours TT) and are building thier own careers... not necessarily gifted and talented educators. Instrument training was VERY weak.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here FloridaGator. You seem to know what you are talking about, but are you saying that your MILITARY flight instructors were only 18 months out from the START of flight training and only had 200 hours?
, and as another member pointed out - you aren't speaking about a FAIP are you?
If this was indeed your experience, then I would feel confident in saying that your expereince was indeed the exception.
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Civilian Instructors were EXCELLENT from my experience. Guys with a Thousand hours or so.
And from my experience, a HUGE majority of my instructors throughout the training command had similar expereince - the exception being a Harrier pilot who checked into Advanced Training right when I was leaving the squadron who had a TOTAL of 500 hrs! Any former Harriers pilots here at APC will know of some of those LEAN years back in the early to mid 90's for the AV-8B community. On the other hand - my civilian instructors were a majority of newly minted CFIs who had the minimum (or near) number of hours required and were a year or two in front of me in school and had been in the local area instructing to build their hours.
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I ended up having to teach my entire Flight Instruments because the "Blue Suits" did a crappy job and the FAIP's knew little more than what the students were reading out of the book. NONE of the instructors had ever been in IMC. Please understand that the Military is great at Formation flying and "Contact" or aerobatic flying.
I helped my entire flight school class through instrument ground school too - extra help - but I certainly didn't NEED to teach them the entire syllabus. Matter of fact - MANY classes before and after me made it through class, and entire flying careers, without a single bit of extra help. I'm sure the case is the same with your training too. The statement about "NONE of the instructors had ever been in IMC" also raises questions. It seems that you once again are focusing your attention on a FAIP and making it sound to those that don't know any different that this would be the norm. Again - I'll use my own experience to give a different viewpoint.
ALL of my instructors - throughout 3.5 years of training had been in IMC at some point in their careers (and I never flew with a SERGRAD)
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