DCA to get 50 Cirrus

[Kristie]

-All solos will be after 100 hours

wait...are they saying all solo's.. even your ppl solo??? that'd be weird considering you can get your ppl in 60 hrs and under!!

 

[derg]

$$$

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

I think that any school that trains initial pilots in a part 142 program is evil. Long term, the results from this can't be good. The only people that benefit from this is the school, as once you get very far along into something like this, you can't afford to leave. Where are you going to take 100 hours of sim time?

I can't wait until people like this go 'jet direct' with 100 hours of actual airplane time. I can hear it now "I'd take the sim super pilot over the flight instructor that spent 1000 hrs in the pattern any day..."

What's the big difference between 141 and 142 training reqs.?

 

[jtrain609]

142 has a lot of simulator training. Like, level D Cessna 172 simulators. They're cutting edge...or some ####.

 

[Swen]

142 has a lot of simulator training. Like, level D Cessna 172 simulators. They're cutting edge...or some ####.

Lols....They probably have some 172 fuselage in a room with a big black box with a bunch of wires that only has a modded version of MS flightsim. Nirvana for sim geeks!

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Lols....They probably have some 172 fuselage in a room with a big black box with a bunch of wires that only has a modded version of MS flightsim. Nirvana for sim geeks!

LOL, go to the arcade at the Luxur in Vegas. They have a 150/152 with a JAL flight sim in it and it does pitch up down with the program.......

Can I log that time as sim???

 

[kellwolf]

Copied from the AOPA forum, posted by thito01:

"I just talked to some DCA students. Here is the new DCA rules.

-All students will do their Private and IFR checkrides at the same time.
-All students will have 100 hours in the SR20 prior to solo.
-All solos will be after 100 hours
-After private/IFR check-ride, students will get time on old steam guages.

Cha-Ching! How they're gonna do this without significantly increaseing the price is way beyond me. The instructors will love it b/c of the dual, but they'll still only see $10/hr. Besides, after the private/IFR, it's on to ME, so they have no choice but to go to steam gauges.

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Cha-Ching! How they're gonna do this without significantly increaseing the price is way beyond me. The instructors will love it b/c of the dual, but they'll still only see $10/hr. Besides, after the private/IFR, it's on to ME, so they have no choice but to go to steam gauges.

What, arent they going to get G1000 Twinstars?

 

[ananoman]

Cha-Ching! How they're gonna do this without significantly increaseing the price is way beyond me. The instructors will love it b/c of the dual, but they'll still only see $10/hr. Besides, after the private/IFR, it's on to ME, so they have no choice but to go to steam gauges.

Actually, there will probably be less total dual in a program like this. But, the instructors will get to spend hours in airconditioned darkness pushing buttons to operate the sim.

That is another problem with programs like this. The quality of sim training is much more dependent on an excellent CFI than airplane training. If you have a middle of the road CFI, you will learn how to fly an airplane. Sim training is a lot harder from the instructor standpoint, because you have to provide everything to make it realistic. Most low time CFI's will have an extremely hard time doing this.

Bet they will have a hard time recruiting CFIs as well. Who wants to spend half their time in the box?

 

[FatBastard]

Hey DCA Instructors, since they are getting a new fleet, are they gonna increase your pay? I mean you guys ought to be making at least $15.00 bucks on the hour plus time for all that damn paperwork you guys have to fill out.

Anyone?? Well? Anyone??

 

[supra1998tt]

Hey DCA Instructors, since they are getting a new fleet, are they gonna increase your pay? I mean you guys ought to be making at least $15.00 bucks on the hour plus time for all that damn paperwork you guys have to fill out.

Anyone?? Well? Anyone??

You'd figure they would but.... nothey were getting paid 10 dollars an hour but right before I left after complainaing they got a raise how much ........ $1:nana2: so now its $11 an hour

 

[SpiraMirabilis]

Pull the chute?