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I told you about this last time you bashed ATP instructors. Instructors hardly ever do XCs like that during training. When planes go from "Washington to Florida" that is two STUDENTS, not an instructor and a student. The cross country flight time builds total time towards your commercial rating. This is done after the students earn their instrument rating. The only long XC that I have done with a student is the long XC that is required in the FARs. XC of more than 250nm with 3 different approaches at 3 different airports. And for the return trip, another required flight by the FARs towards your commerical rating, 300nm VFR at night, 250nm straight line before your first stop. Requires 3 stops at 3 different airports. Like I said before and I'll say it again, know your facts before you make a comment. I have 400 hours of dual given, and about 20 of that is long xc, you can do the math to see how much of my flight time are short hops with alot of approaches. You have no idea how training goes in the first place, so how can you make comments about our proceedures when you don't know the facts.Originally Posted by AirWillie
Oh come on, how else do you guys go from Washington to Florida in a few days? I'm just in favor of doing many short flights with many takeoffs and landings. Now you can argue that you get flight experience all over the country but at that stage 100-300 hours you still need to be learning and doing many practice approaches and other types of flying rather than flying 2 hour flights where you just sit there and enjoy the scenery. I understand that ATP CFIs don't do as much of this but that is the basis of ATPs training for students.