Accelerated Instrument Ground School

[Bryanmooney]

Does anyone know of Accelerated ground school classes?

Paul was kind enough to pass along info about the Rick Yandle school but it looks like they only have one class till the end of the year.

 

Thanks for any help.

[rainman]

Where are you? Have you ruled out the King DVD set? I used the DVDs for the written, then did very well on the test, and took an accelerated flying course for my IR. The Redbird Skyport in San Marcos Texas is very well set up to do individualized training. I did some simulator training there, and it was quite good.. Ray

[cbarry]

I know American Flyers has an accelerated ground school. It's 2 1/2 days long and then you can sit for your written as soon as the class was over.

[Bob]

I finished up my IFR in Waterloo IA.  Call Livingston Aviation and ask for Scott.  He does a lot of accelerated instruction.  While I was doing my IFR, he had a student from Texas there for 10 days for her CFI and CFII.  I think she was done with both in 8 days.  The personality and expectations of the local examiner are very close to Scott's.  That helps a lot and will reduce stresses during your check ride.  I will go back for an accelerated Commercial.  Also their rate is a little below market.

 

Sorry, the above info was posted and I missed ground school.  But think I should leave it to help with your next step.

[flyboy0681]

Not sure why anybody needs a ground course. I purchased the King online course and the Gleim book and got two questions wrong on my written a few months ago. All it takes is time to get through the material and of course, a thorough understanding.

[mooneyman]

Check out  http://excellenceingeneralaviation.com/Excellance_in_General_Aviation/Greeting.html

 

 

Dave Maynard does an accelerated instrument training course that includes ground training. Great guy!

 

Very comprehensive program. I did my instrument training with him a couple of years ago.

[Jerry 5TJ]

I took a weekend course from Aviation Seminars for the Instrument written. The material went by too fast to discuss anything at length so if you're not already familiar with the topics it would be a challenge to grasp and retain ab initio.   

 

The weekend course was a great review of material I'd been studying for three months in a class at the local community college. 

 

http://www.aviationseminars.com/instrument.html

[larryb]

I used an ipad app from these guys. It allowed me to study and test with the question pool. In the few cases where their explanation of the answer was not sufficient, I googled the topic. I had several books my instructor recommended, but in the end used only this and got a good score. My process was to go through each section twice in flashcard mode (just seeing the right answer) and then go through in test mode. I did that twice for the entire pool. Then I did practice 60 question tests until I was consistently in the high 90's. Then I took the written. There is a lot to learn, I don't see how one could learn it all in a weekend.

 

Larry

 

http://www.dauntless-soft.com/products/groundschool/

[flyboy0681]

I used an ipad app from these guys.

 

Larry

 

http://www.dauntless-soft.com/products/groundschool/

 

I used a few sites to take sample tests. Here are a few that I used which proved the most helpful. But make no mistake, there are so many questions in the test bank that it would be very difficult to memorize them all.

 

http://www.webexams.com/exam/take?exam=166

 

http://www.risingup.com/tests/

 

http://www.mywrittenexam.com (This is the best one and contains the new, updated questions).

 

http://www.exams4pilots.org/faatest.cgi

[larryb]

 But make no mistake, there are so many questions in the test bank that it would be very difficult to memorize them all.

 

Absolutely! I didn't mean to imply that I did memorize the pool. But I think it's useful to use the pool to know what the FAA thinks is important to study. If it was a math problem, I worked it out, and knew how to work it out. If it was a weather chart problem, I studied symbols so I could read the charts. If it was a rule, I memorized it. There is a lot of memorization.

[Igor_U]

I’ve done that 7-8 years ago and I found the outfit that does weekend classes with test at the end of it nationwide. They were advertised in AOPA Pilot magazine, I think.

I m not sure the name of it but I believe it’s this one: http://aviationtestprep.com/Schedule/

Depending where you live, it might be convenient for you; or not. If I remember, when I’m at home, I’ll look at the coarse material to confirm it.

 

I found the weekend course adequate and good value for money if you want to pass the test; I think I hit 95% on it. It was full day Saturday and Sunday was until 3 pm; after that you’d do a test. Location of the course was at the FAA approved test site which was convenient; I see that now in Seattle they have it in Holliday inn – so they must have changed something, or this is not the same provider.

 

There are a lot of things to cover in two days so coming prepared helped. I had access to material before, when I registered, so that was a plus.

As I said, course is about passing a written test so didn’t expect you’ll know everything for a real life IFR, or for a practical test with examiner; study for that is required as well.

I’ve started with my flying with CFII after I passed my written and it took me 2 months to get to check ride, by then I’d forget material from the course without self study.

Instructor was local and I think they don’t travel nationwide, coarse material was presented in reasonable way but don’t expect books, it’s was printed and in folder IIRC.

There were only a few students and couple of them took that as an IFR refresher course and only I (and maybe another one) took that as the full IFR Ground school from “zero”.

 

I would do it again for the reason that it was easier for me to take a weekend off from family, work, house then spend weeks self study after  work, getting distracted and such.

YMMV.

 

Good luck.

 

Igor

N9514M @ KPAE