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Old 16th May 2011, 10:11
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grodep
 
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There is a misunderstanding developing. There certainly is stall training in FAA land, the issue is that the emphasis is on minimizing altitude loss which then discourages aggressive lowering of the angle of attack.

In other words too much checkride choreography and too little reality.
if true, this is insane!

It always surprises me how everybody is happy that the military put their pilots through a very compreshensice and fast-paced traing program were guys in their early twenties fly fast jets with only a couple of hundred hours total time but the same thing in a two crew airline environment is considered unacceptable.
no way you can compare: military training is all about selection, if one can't do the job, he's out in the next few days, no second chance, no waste of hours to let him improve enough. In the army, you dont wanna know how much hours one needs to eventually reach the good level, you just wanna get pilots who can make it in the few hours scheduled.
Moreover, as mentionned before, i'm pretty sure you cant compare a military pilot course and the best cadet training program. But, you'll still need more than a couple of hundred hours to fly a fast jet, and you'll need much more hours to be qualified as an operationnal pilot on this aircraft.


Last word for fairweatherflyer, there's no way you can accept that being unable to recover from a stall is something else than poor training and lack of basic skills to say the least, this is definitely something every pilot should be able to do while being asleep...
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