AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  DVD recommendations          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Aviation (Students) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Steve Fleischer Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:27 am    Post subject: DVD recommendations I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:50 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations I watched sporty's free "First few hours" dvd, and i really liked it. No corny humor, and easy to understand. You may want to go to their website and request a catalog, they will send you the free dvd along with it(and a cool poster too) "Steve Fleischer" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top Cecil Chapman Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:03 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations I guess you may want to go the route of Sporty's. Personally, they put me to sleep (literally). I'm partial to King Schools and actually find their mid-western manner and corny humor rather endearing. Most importantly, I remember what they teach. BR on the weather report will always be 'baby rain' in my memory <grin>. -- -- =----- Good Flights! Cecil PP-ASEL-IA Student - CP-ASEL Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond! Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis - "Steve Fleischer" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top tony roberts Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:12 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations Hi Steve Which is most important to you? Least humour = Sporty.s Most Retention = King They are both good - as mass market DVD's go! Tony -- [email]Indiacharlieecho (AT) hotmail (DOT) com[/email] Tony Roberts PP-ASEL VFR OTT Night Cessna 172H C-GICE In article <8n5dprcqubxv.g68f46wtjitn.dlg (AT) 40tude (DOT) net>, Steve Fleischer <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- [email]Indiacharlieecho (AT) hotmail (DOT) com[/email] Tony Roberts PP-ASEL VFR OTT Night Cessna 172H C-GICE Back to top Steve Fleischer Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:21 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:12:37 GMT, tony roberts wrote: Quote: Hi Steve Which is most important to you? Least humour = Sporty.s Most Retention = King They are both good - as mass market DVD's go! Actually, after reading Cecil's post I went to the Kings website and watched some video clips - I found the humour OK and I liked their presentation style. Before I posted my question it was Sportys, now I'm not so sure. Thanks everyone. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 13:19:45 Back to top Colin Gibb Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:30 pm    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations I have the ASA Test Preperation Guide on DVD, it's excellent..the presentation style is very straightforward, and includes a number of practice FAA Questions. -- ---------------------------------------------------- This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com "Steve Fleischer" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top Bob Gardner Guest Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:55 pm    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations ....and the Test Prep book that accompanies the DVD contains the entire bank of questions. Bob Gardner "Colin Gibb" <colin (AT) colingibb (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I have the ASA Test Preperation Guide on DVD, it's excellent..the presentation style is very straightforward, and includes a number of practice FAA Questions. -- ---------------------------------------------------- This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com "Steve Fleischer" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:8n5dprcqubxv.g68f46wtjitn.dlg (AT) 40tude (DOT) net... I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top Colin Gibb Guest Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:02 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations Yea, I would have mentioned that, but I forgot, because I already had one of those with the ASA starter kit that I bought from my FBO. So, now I have 2 of them :-) "Bob Gardner" <bobmrg (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote Quote: ...and the Test Prep book that accompanies the DVD contains the entire bank of questions. Bob Gardner "Colin Gibb" <colin (AT) colingibb (DOT) com> wrote in message news:416688b0$1_3 (AT) alt (DOT) athenanews.com... I have the ASA Test Preperation Guide on DVD, it's excellent..the presentation style is very straightforward, and includes a number of practice FAA Questions. -- ---------------------------------------------------- This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com "Steve Fleischer" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:8n5dprcqubxv.g68f46wtjitn.dlg (AT) 40tude (DOT) net... I am going to get a PPL training course on DVD as an Xmas present and would like to get some feedback from the folks here as to which one they used and if they would recommend it. One thing I am keen to avoid is the "humourous" presentation style. Thanks. -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 08/10/2004 10:22:23 Back to top MichaelR Guest Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:46 pm    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations "Bob Gardner" <bobmrg (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote Quote: ...and the Test Prep book that accompanies the DVD contains the entire bank of questions. Because that the FAA no longer publishes "the entire bank of questions", Gleim and similar books no longer have all of the current "bank". Back to top Jeff Franks Guest Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:18 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations "Cecil Chapman" <bayareapilot (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote Quote: I guess you may want to go the route of Sporty's. Personally, they put me to sleep (literally). I'm partial to King Schools and actually find their mid-western manner and corny humor rather endearing. Most importantly, I remember what they teach. BR on the weather report will always be 'baby rain' in my memory <grin>. I've heard people complain about the King tapes having too much corny humor. In reality, there are only 9 or 10 places through the entire set that I would classify as actual attempts at humor....and most of them are funny and unexpected. It's not as if they are trying to teach ground school through a comedy routine, they just insert fairly humorous thoughts and comments into the drudge of information that they are spitting out. I've used both sets of tapes in the past (Sporty's were circa 1995, sooo, I don't know about the new ones), but for the written, I used the King tapes exclusively and scored a 98 (with a little side studying ) jf Back to top Steve Fleischer Guest Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:50 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:18:40 -0500, Jeff Franks wrote: Quote: I've heard people complain about the King tapes having too much corny humor. In reality, there are only 9 or 10 places through the entire set that I would classify as actual attempts at humor....and most of them are funny and unexpected. It's not as if they are trying to teach ground school through a comedy routine, they just insert fairly humorous thoughts and comments into the drudge of information that they are spitting out. I've used both sets of tapes in the past (Sporty's were circa 1995, sooo, I don't know about the new ones), but for the written, I used the King tapes exclusively and scored a 98 (with a little side studying ) Thanks for your comments. I have decided to go with the King DVDs, and also the Checkride DVD, thereby qualifying for 4 free CD's (landings, navigation, xcountry etc). Roll on Xmas!! -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 10/10/2004 14:48:46 Back to top Chris Guest Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations "Jeff Franks" <jfranks1970 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote Quote: "Cecil Chapman" <bayareapilot (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in message news:1sn9d.813$6q2.111 (AT) newssvr14 (DOT) news.prodigy.com... I guess you may want to go the route of Sporty's. Personally, they put me to sleep (literally). I'm partial to King Schools and actually find their mid-western manner and corny humor rather endearing. Most importantly, I remember what they teach. BR on the weather report will always be 'baby rain' in my memory <grin>. I've heard people complain about the King tapes having too much corny humor. In reality, there are only 9 or 10 places through the entire set that I would classify as actual attempts at humor....and most of them are funny and unexpected. It's not as if they are trying to teach ground school through a comedy routine, they just insert fairly humorous thoughts and comments into the drudge of information that they are spitting out. I've used both sets of tapes in the past (Sporty's were circa 1995, sooo, I don't know about the new ones), but for the written, I used the King tapes exclusively and scored a 98 (with a little side studying ) I am glad some Americans think the King stuff is a bit cheesy and it not just a British thing. Good content or not, its difficult to concentrate when you are wiping the tears from your eyes. Sorry Mr and Mrs King, the only thing funnier would be Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) doing the stuff. Back to top Cecil Chapman Guest Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: DVD recommendations As I said before,,, the Sporty's stuff puts me to sleep - when I was working on my Instrument rating I couldn't sell the Sportys Instrument course on Ebay, soon enough... King works and if you've ever met them in-person they are very nice and genuine people - I've even visited their staff at King Schools when I flew down with my wife for one of her business trips to San Diego - and the staff of King schools (at least the persons I met) were all very personable and helpful. -- -- =----- Good Flights! Cecil PP-ASEL-IA Student - CP-ASEL Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond! Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. 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