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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 30 Oct \ parent \ on: I just failed my PPL theoretical exam pre-test—AMA! flying
100 hours just to take the theoretical for PPL? Oof.
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Hang on, so what were the 100 hours spent on if not flight training? Just briefings and classroom hours? Even more oof.
Exactly, it has only been ground school so far. You didn’t have to do ground school first? Are you in the US?
I need at least 45 flight hours to get my license (10 solo, 5 cross-country). With 100 flight hours I could have done my license two times lol.
Anyway, training is basically just moving the maximum of tasks you can handle through practice. You'll experience task overload and that only gets better with seat time and repetition.
Beyond that, it's also learning where your gut instinct is deceiving you and retraining your first responses in those situations. Like using pitch for speed and throttle for altitude, not the other way around.
Thank you, will keep this in mind!
I’m especially looking forward to the spin training but it’s not mandatory to get the license which I think is weird. If I don’t learn how to recover a spin, do they just assume I’ll never get into one? 🤔
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @unboiled 30 Oct
Exactly, it has only been ground school so far. You didn’t have to do ground school first? Are you in the US?
We did ground school in tandem with actual flying lessons. I learned in South Africa. They did lean on us to complete all exams before hitting 20-25 hours, before starting solo cross country flights iirc.
I need at least 45 flight hours to get my license (10 solo, 5 cross-country). With 100 flight hours I could have done my license two times lol.
Yep, same here for hours required.
At around 100h I'll be starting my instrument rating. And only because my school prefers us getting more PIC flight time in visual conditions before starting with IR training.
I’m especially looking forward to the spin training but it’s not mandatory to get the license which I think is weird. If I don’t learn how to recover a spin, do they just assume I’ll never get into one? 🤔
The way it was explained to me, is that the chance of incidents in spin training is too high to make it mandatory. And some popular training airplanes aren't rated for spins either. Incipient spin recovery was required though. So you learn to recognize and correct the issue before a spin happens.
I'll probably still get some spin training done eventually and maybe combine it with a few hours of other aerobatic lessons.
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