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A Closer Look at Accelerated Instrument Training
It seems more and more airline pilot training organizations are offering what is commonly called “accelerated flight training”. What is this and can it be used effectively for your training?
Accelerated flight training is designed to get you through the airline pilot training process quickly and efficiently. It is commonly used in two situations; the first being for busy people that have a hard time taking flight lessons 1 to 3 times week, and the second for the person that needs to complete training that has seemingly “dragged on” for a long period of time. Sometimes this is called a “finish up course”.
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Initial Instrument Training
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The First Few Steps …
… are the toughest, whether it’s learning to walk, ride a bike or, especially flying IFR.
The first few steps of instrument flying may be the most crucial you’ll ever take, but the results are a lot more rewarding. On the other hand, a misstep might cause you far more grief than falling over when you were 12 months old and first learning to walk. Those missteps resulted in a scraped knee, some tears and a cuddle from Mom. A misstep in IFR might well result in a 15 second sound bite on the evening news — the kind that makes non-fliers glad they never left the ground.
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Why Use a Flight Simulator
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In recent years, the FAA has become accepting of flight simulation as an invaluable aid to instrument instruction. Using a flight simulator is a time- and money-saving means of doing repetitive tasks such as holding-pattern entries and procedure turns. It also enables you to fly approaches not available because of the aircraft’s limitations or the lack of nearby facilities.
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I think I lost a friend the other day. Why? Well, communications between people, in the best of worlds, is a problem at best. At worst, it causes considerable emotional upheaval; this, if it results in some kind of personal loss, leads in turn to many things—loss of appetite, withdrawing into oneself, a fear that anything one does will cause problems, and it’s possible that it may degrade physical skills and interfere with rational decision making. Amazing but true.
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For the past 100 years, everyone in the aviation business has been talking about proficiency, how we all must be proficient at what we do in the air and how we have to be proficient when practical tests roll around. CFIIs do Instrument Proficiency Checks because as CFIs we’re responsible to train pilot applicants to acceptable standards — that is to say proficiency — and so on. Every aviation magazine, newspaper, club newsletter in the world has articles on proficiency and how it relates to our safety. Then there are all those accident reports, too … The more I think about it, proficiency seems to be one of those things everybody knows about but no one can define!
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Flight Training 
