Man sounds like you hit a gold mine at that club!! I would love to have a place like that close to home with rates and CFIs like that!! Any fresh advice on tackling accelerated training? I'm about to jump neck deep into some serious (get it done) training so I can start the job search!!
jskibo
All I can say is be prepared, at least have the ground work done and know what you're working on the next day.
Working all day and flying all night was tough, sleep was the first thing to go and I was wiped out.
Make sure the instructor is someone you can spend 30 hours in a week with and has things planned out. Obviously the plane has to be available.
Wife was supportive and knew it was basically sleep and gone for me those 9 days, without that it would be tough.
When the airside work clicked, I started sweating the oral prep. In the end, the oral was fairly easy and I felt over-prepared and I had flown those approaches every night, sometimes 2 and 3 time a night along with every nearby airport.
We spent the last three nights running mock check rides twice a night. Something simple like moving the timer to my clipboard helped me remember to hit it every time, clipped to the grab handle I left it out of my scan sometimes, once the cockpit was set up for "me" and the way I ran my flows everything really clicked.
I like the accelerated method a lot.
Oh, one more thing. He seemed to really cover the special emphasis items in the PTS. Positive control, runway collision avoidance, etc...