Best DVDs for students.

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What DVD ground course have any of you ha experience with and would recommend? I'm looking for one I can recommend to my students who may find the books a little too dry, but I've heard so so reviews of the ASA ones, and the King stuff isn't for everyone.
 
John and Martha King... living proof that sexy sells $$$

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Rotor2Wing said:
X2 Sporty's is by far the most complete ground school out there for private and instrument. The others are more geared for test prep.
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I had a friend who bought the Sporty's private ground school DVD's and he really liked them. He never did go take his written so I cannot say how well it prepared him from that perspective.
 
Haven't used any DVD course for my own tickets but wanted to include something in my PPL syllabus so checked out (as in watched a random lesson for 30 mins) King's and Jepps DVD video courses.

I did not like Kings for two reasons. It was somewhat naive and too much emphasis was made on passing the written test instead of understanding the material. I may give it a try if I get some bimbo that can't memorize the question bank an attractive blonde student who finds multiple choice exams unreasonably challenging.

Jepps material was better, albeit somewhat dry. It follows the textbook structure but essentially is the same material with footage of airplanes.

Also heard good things about Sporty's but never had a chance to try, I wonder if they'd give out free evaluation copies for CFIs or FBOs (obviously I'm not ready to fork out 200 bucks just to check it out)
 
I had a set of Sporty's DVDs when I was working on my PPL. I didn't get a thing out of them and sold them on eBay. I've seen a few other DVDs as well and find them all incredibly unhelpful. Oh, I should set personal minimums? I should speak clearly on the radio? Thanks Sporty's! (while seeing a Bose product placement every 3 seconds).

I will never subject my students to aviation DVDs - aren't you supposed to be teaching them this stuff? :p
 
thevideographer said:
aren't you supposed to be teaching them this stuff? :p
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Not necessarily. I figure a good ground school takes at least 20 hours of instruction. It's not practical for any of my students (or me for that matter) to sit in a classroom for hours. However, it works out very well to have them study on their own with books and/or DVD's and then do review sessions to see that they understand the material and clear up confusion.
 
Eh, I made it through with the minimum number of ground lessons and only the ASA book to help. The DVDs don't really add anything unless you have a student who is completely new to aviation.
 
Not all students learn well from reading books, you need to learn to adapt to help your students achieve their goals not your own preferences.
 
thevideographer said:
Eh, I made it through with the minimum number of ground lessons and only the ASA book to help. The DVDs don't really add anything unless you have a student who is completely new to aviation.
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I really want to get them to learn best without spoon feeding them 40 ground lessons.
 
rframe said:
Not all students learn well from reading books, you need to learn to adapt to help your students achieve their goals not your own preferences.
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Not all students learn well from books, but nobody learns well from Sporty's DVDs because they contain no useful information and look like they were made in 1995.
 
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