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From: falk@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Private Pilot Groung School
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 11:09:00 EST
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I agree that home study can be very good *if* you have the discipline to do
it regularly. I bought the sanderson course for private pilots which included
a book on flying, a workbook, some flight charts and a flight computer (the
metal kind with dials, not the push button kind). I read the chapters and did
ALL of the workbook questions (I did not write the answers in the workbook, but
used a separate piece of paper- that way, I could review and not have the 
answers written in).

I took the FAA written and got a 92- my flight instructor nearly fell out of
his cockpit when he found out (since I opted not to take his mucho-expensive
ground school course, I naturally was going to flunk the test, in his opinion).
Certainly, if $$$ is a consideration and if you can get yourself to study, I
would recommend a home course with a few *good* books (Sanderson or Jeppson were
names I could trust, this was a few years ago, but I think they're both still
around).

Connie Falk
(falk@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu)