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Originally Posted by PGT  I don't mind doing it as I'm learning a lot but starting from scratch isn't fun! Plus my professor that will be grading this is very strict, it's his way or the high way. |
If it is for a professor I would just aim to meet his standards. Honestly, completing a full private pilot syllabus in the matter of a few weeks is absurd if you do it from scratch. To give you an idea, over the last year I have put between 750 and 1000 hours into the course I have been working with. I am only on the second rewrite, still, for the last 4 or 5 months. Here is a breakdown of approximately time I've needed to write a "from scratch" syllabus:
250 (2-3 months) hours for research, in my case 7 books cover to cover, forums, and various articles/parts of other books.
200 (2 months) hours for the primary write up, basically free writing.
300-500 (6 months) hours to thoroughly revise my original syllabus and make it readable to the laymen.
Various hours for continued research and just plain thinking to figure out how things need to be structured. It is essentially the work equivalent of a doctorate dissertation to do such a task.
I took between 1 and 2 moths break from pure frustration, heavy real work load, and/or vacation time. What your instructor is likely looking for is some basic outline of what you want for each lesson. I believe moxy or mini gave a great idea on this a few months back to do something basic like that. They said, I will summarize as best I can:
Get a sticky pad and find an open wall. Write down each individual task on a separate sticky bad from the FARs, AIM, and any other information you feel is necessary. Go through the wall and pick out the things that fit together and organize them, I think a blank binder/journal would work. Place the ideas on the stickies that go together on separate pages and then you have your start point. Create a basic outline with objectives, information to introduce and review, and finally some completion standards. A method to do this is on excel.
Here is an example of a blank lesson sheet I created a while back, basically the same as what I used at Daniel Webster:
http://www.2shared.com/file/8852411/...on_Sheet.html?
PS: Those of you PMing me, please send me your e-mail address unless you check JC fairly often. To anyone interested in eventually helping out or looking for more info my e-mail is
bkonsko@gmail.com, just shoot me an e-mail. Any help is appreciated, more info on how this will work will launch when the site goes live.