Bonchie
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The journey continues. Got my CFI late last year, passed my ME Comm yesterday.
Did the three day course with Thrust Flight in Dallas. $4K including the examiner fee was about as competitive as it gets for an accelerated ME Comm course and the plane is a nice 2002 Seminole.
If you are a decent pilot, the first flight is landings and the maneuvers and will feel easy. Second flight is intro to single engine stuff. Third flight is locking in the emergency flows, tightening up the single engine stuff and approach, maneuvers reviews. Fourth flight is mock checkride.
Checkride the third morning and done.
Really enjoyed it. Thrust Flight does the ME an hour north up at Denison so it’s laid back, not crowded, no delays on the ground, and easy airspace so you can focus on procedures. They also do a buddy system where you ride in the backseat for their flights and can essentially chair fly the procedures to help memorize them. That’s a good idea and works. I backseated for two flights and took a break the other two.
Are you likely to be buddied with a guy who’s doing zero to airline and has little real-world experience? Sure. But the school seems to do a good job of preparing them and I didn’t feel like they were doing the “pilot mill” thing in the sense that guys weren’t safe and proficient.
Times are 7 hours of stick time (including one hour for the checkride) plus 2.5 hours of a mock oral. Study beforehand, know the POH and how to do the performance charts and you’re golden.
Would recommend.
Did the three day course with Thrust Flight in Dallas. $4K including the examiner fee was about as competitive as it gets for an accelerated ME Comm course and the plane is a nice 2002 Seminole.
If you are a decent pilot, the first flight is landings and the maneuvers and will feel easy. Second flight is intro to single engine stuff. Third flight is locking in the emergency flows, tightening up the single engine stuff and approach, maneuvers reviews. Fourth flight is mock checkride.
Checkride the third morning and done.
Really enjoyed it. Thrust Flight does the ME an hour north up at Denison so it’s laid back, not crowded, no delays on the ground, and easy airspace so you can focus on procedures. They also do a buddy system where you ride in the backseat for their flights and can essentially chair fly the procedures to help memorize them. That’s a good idea and works. I backseated for two flights and took a break the other two.
Are you likely to be buddied with a guy who’s doing zero to airline and has little real-world experience? Sure. But the school seems to do a good job of preparing them and I didn’t feel like they were doing the “pilot mill” thing in the sense that guys weren’t safe and proficient.
Times are 7 hours of stick time (including one hour for the checkride) plus 2.5 hours of a mock oral. Study beforehand, know the POH and how to do the performance charts and you’re golden.
Would recommend.
