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From: good@pixar (If your cat had kittens in the oven would you call them biscuits?)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Aviation Seminars
Message-ID: <2537@pixar.pixar>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 17:08:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 17:08:45 1986
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	Enough people asked about the Aviation Seminars two-day crash course
(perhaps not a good choice of words...) instrument class that I'll post my
observations here.

	The bottom line is that I passed with a score of 93, so the claims about
average scores seem to be right on the money.  Now for the gory details:

	I took the course on a minimum of sleep, and took the test right after
the class.  They say that scores are pretty much the same as long as you take
it within 48 hours, but I wanted to get it out of the way.  The instructors were
good at keeping the class on track, which was difficult in our case because we
had one "chatty cathy" type who wanted to tell us all sorts of war stories.

	The structure of the course is very good at preparing you to take the
test.  One of the instructors suggested that we also take the long, $15 version
at our local community college to aid long-term retention of the material.

	The test itself is a crock.  It is so full of things which are totally
irrelevant to flying an airplane that I don't feel the least bit guilty for
having taken a cram course to pass it.  Besides, I lucked into an instructor
who is making sure I know what I really need to know in the real world.

	In summary, if you are looking down the barrels of the Instrument
written test, this is a good way to take care of it.

		--Craig
		...ucbvax!pixar!good