Originally Posted by
deja vu
Yeah, not so sure about "packing in your flight training"
In 1971 I was a C grade instructor for a large Flying school based at Jandakot. Someone ( management) had come up with the bright idea of offering a 4 week (20 days)course from zero to RPPL, all in, theory etc. all for a fixed sum. Only requirement was that candidates needed to get their student licence and medical before the course was started. So on the first day there were 5 new students and 5 instructors assigned to do nothing else but fly, brief and teach the basic PPL Principles of flight, Engines, Met and air legislation, this went from 7 AM thru to 7 PM each day. It was exhausting for all involved but all passed on the 20th day.
About 3 weeks later one of these students came back to start the unrestricted part (Navs) and I was assigned to fly with him. What a disaster, the poor guy didn't have a clue, he had forgotten everything and we had to spend about 6 hours dual before he was up to leaving the training area.
So, take it easy, have a bit of time to digest what you have done and learned after each lesson would be my advise, but sure there is merit in getting it done quickly.
Well well... I've seen the opposite: students dragging on and on sluggishly and taking the better part of 12 months to complete a mere RPL. There's no denying that taking time to allow concepts to sink in can't be bad. But I personally have always found that it takes a certain volume of practice over a comparatively short period of time to make substantial progress.
And then there's the fact that (mostly) everyone is different.
Good luck to OP, don't stress yourself and just get started. You'll figure things out quickly enough.