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Captain_Bob · October 7th, 2006, 05:11

Ok... I'm gonna go out on a limb here...

The Private.

Pure and simple... you are taking someone from a 2 dimensional way of thinking and placing them into a 3 dimensional world. The concepts are totally different. Think of everything you learned the for the first time ever as a PPL. Take off's, Landings, XW landings, No power landings, engine failures, stalls, crabing, turns around a point, learning where the wind is coming from, constant rate climbs and descents, standard rate turns, tracking and identifying VOR's, VFR Cross Country Planning, Visual Checkpoints, Lost Procedures, Triangulating your position, Class A, B, C, D etc. airspace, Notams, Weather, Talking to Ground, Tower, Approach, Clearance... Steep turns, Short & Soft field landings and take offs, Dead Reckoning, Uncontrolled field ops, Slow Flight, Night XC's and landings, Taxi-ing, pattern work, etc.

These are the very foundations of all of the other ratings. By the time we hit the other ratings we have been at least exposed to these items... but we had to learn it all from scratch in the beginning. For example... Tracking and identifying VOR's was simply an introduction into instrument flying. Manuevers, visual checkpoints, etc... we fine tune these skills in the commercial. CFI... we take everything we've learned... learn why we learned it and how to find answers to questions we never knew to ask... and put it all together.

Yeah... the other ratings may require more study time and knowledge... but the basic "stick & rudder" skills that we had to learn for the very first time that are the foundation of everything we do from that point on... well... to me... that's the hardest.

Bob

October 7th, 2006, 05:11	#6
Captain_Bob Old Skool Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW, based in ONT, wishing I was in Maine Posts: 3,831	Re: Hardest Rating/License Ok... I'm gonna go out on a limb here... The Private. Pure and simple... you are taking someone from a 2 dimensional way of thinking and placing them into a 3 dimensional world. The concepts are totally different. Think of everything you learned the for the first time ever as a PPL. Take off's, Landings, XW landings, No power landings, engine failures, stalls, crabing, turns around a point, learning where the wind is coming from, constant rate climbs and descents, standard rate turns, tracking and identifying VOR's, VFR Cross Country Planning, Visual Checkpoints, Lost Procedures, Triangulating your position, Class A, B, C, D etc. airspace, Notams, Weather, Talking to Ground, Tower, Approach, Clearance... Steep turns, Short & Soft field landings and take offs, Dead Reckoning, Uncontrolled field ops, Slow Flight, Night XC's and landings, Taxi-ing, pattern work, etc. These are the very foundations of all of the other ratings. By the time we hit the other ratings we have been at least exposed to these items... but we had to learn it all from scratch in the beginning. For example... Tracking and identifying VOR's was simply an introduction into instrument flying. Manuevers, visual checkpoints, etc... we fine tune these skills in the commercial. CFI... we take everything we've learned... learn why we learned it and how to find answers to questions we never knew to ask... and put it all together. Yeah... the other ratings may require more study time and knowledge... but the basic "stick & rudder" skills that we had to learn for the very first time that are the foundation of everything we do from that point on... well... to me... that's the hardest. Bob __________________ My head is in the clouds and my heart is still in Maine... but my devotion and love belong to my wife and children. Pics!