A Real Commercial Ground School????

[Grey Ghost]

How About A Real Commercial Ground School????

Why don't all these flight schools around the country redesign the standard Commercial ground school? They need to stop wasting time teaching about systems in a King Air and what the "boundary layer" or "Coffin Corner" is and focus on what really matters. Students can learn any of that stuff by simply reading one of the many available books out there. Why don't the people in charge of these schools focus on what really matters to a Comm pilot like: what a dispatch release is? how to read one? how long it is valid for? Flight time limitations? how to read T/O and Landing performance data? Exemption 3585 and Alternate requirements? Deicing Procedures? What High Mins are? what a "union and contract" really are? what a day in the life of a pilot is really like in this day and age? and I can't stress this one enough: What airlines to stay away from! the Mesa's, the Gojets, the Great Lakes...... these are the real life topics that they will be dealing with on an everyday basis no matter where they end up. I understand that not everyone ends up in the 121 world but I sure that many of these topics are still very important to any type of commercial flying. i just see the typical Comm ground school as just another way for the school to make $$$$$$ while the student does'nt learn too much relevant information.

 

[minitour]

Yes, dispatch releases, contracts and unions will definitely be topics of discussion on the oral.

Is this serious?

-mini

 

[Grey Ghost]

Yes, dispatch releases, contracts and unions will definitely be topics of discussion on the oral.

Is this serious?

-mini

Unless you are some loser like yourself, most people don't aspire to teach at some flight school in Utah like you! you must be the biggest nerd in the world! Just keep on climbing out at 65 knots! its losers like you that actually flight instruct for a career! you probably won't have much back up on this except from your grandma! You Loser!!!!!! do you sleep with the PTS under your pillow next to your wife? Just keep on flying your arrow for the rest of your life and playing dungeons and dragons! you pathetic geek!

 

[Grey Ghost]

You actually wasted the time to get the AGI & IGI????? Look where that got you! Wow, a "Chief Flt Instructor" with 2000 hours,all VFR in Utah, it must be some great instruction provided by your school!

 

[Grey Ghost]

Do you think you have enough posts, loser? 3184???????? I'm surprised you have enough time to drive all the way back to you 7 wives in Colorado City Az.

 

[midlifeflyer]

Wow! Someone sure got up on the wrong side of Row 21 this morning.

Without the rolled eyes, for better of for worse, ground school for just about every FAA certificate and rating is primarily geared to passing the knowledge test, with a secondary goal of having you retain enough for the oral part of the practical test. Even then, the commercial pilot coverage of Part 119 and 135 is pretty basic, with 121 and 125 virtually non-existent.

Beyond that, it gets pretty specialized. Do you plan on using your commercial pilot certificate to teach? To ultimately head to the airlines as a pilot? To go the corporate pilot route? To run cargo or a small charter in a small Part 135 op? To start your own Part 135 operation? To start a sightseeing or photo platform? To use it as a stepping stone in a non-flying career?

That's an awful lot of different rules, regulations, and procedures, even without adding in the reality you're looking for. If there is a market for the specialized training you are looking for, it will be there.

 

[Grey Ghost]

Wow! Someone sure got up on the wrong side of Row 21 this morning.

Without the rolled eyes, for better of for worse, ground school for just about every FAA certificate and rating is primarily geared to passing the knowledge test, with a secondary goal of having you retain enough for the oral part of the practical test. Even then, the commercial pilot coverage of Part 119 and 135 is pretty basic, with 121 and 125 virtually non-existent.

Beyond that, it gets pretty specialized. Do you plan on using your commercial pilot certificate to teach? To ultimately head to the airlines as a pilot? To go the corporate pilot route? To run cargo or a small charter in a small Part 135 op? To start your own Part 135 operation? To start a sightseeing or photo platform? To use it as a stepping stone in a non-flying career?


That's an awful lot of different rules, regulations, and procedures, even without adding in the reality you're looking for. If there is a market for the specialized training you are looking for, it will be there.

Yeah, I guess you're right! I just was pointing out the fact that no practical knowledge was provided in my ground school.

 

[nosehair]

I just was pointing out the fact that no practical knowledge was provided in my ground school.

Welcome to 1940. :nuts:

 

[Grey Ghost]

Wow! Someone sure got up on the wrong side of Row 21 this morning.

Usair's 71 direct liberal....

 

[Goose Egg]

For what it's worth, I never learned anything about the coffin corner or King Air systems in my commercial groundschool... More like turbochargers and retractable gear.

Not that dispatch releases and takeoff alternates aren't important things to learn about, but I think it might be a bit beyond the scope of basic commercial training.

And there's nothing wrong with UT--got private through CFI there--but I would add that I've learned a great deal from CFIing in the BOS area.

-Goose