Kenny Keller (YouTube) answers the question "How many times a week should I fly?" He recommends about three times per week, with roughly one-hour lessons, arguing that once-a-week practice is too slow and daily/too-frequent flying can cause burnout or reduced learning. He emphasizes supporting ground study alongside flights and that short gaps between lessons help concepts consolidate.
Here you go, everybody. With fact number two, I was gonna wait and do like one of these a day or something, and I thought, you know what, that's ridiculous. They don't take long. Might as well just bang some of these out. So the first one was the. What does it entail? And a lot of people ask, how many times a week should I fly? Well, when I first started a long time ago that I heard people say, oh, three to four times a week was probably about best. And in 10 years of teaching, I think that's exactly right. I mean, I've had people that flew once a week. And you can do the figures on that. That takes forever. If you fly once a week, by the time you come back the following week, the whole hour you're warming up, trying to get to where you were the week before. And then I had a student that wanted to bust the rating out and get it done because she was trying to get a position with an aviation unit and she wanted to fly every day and she tried hard and she was a good girl, but she was trying too hard and she wanted to fly every day and twice a day and. And we tried it for a little while and got close to checkride time and she wasn't flying, wasn't getting better, it was getting worse. And one day we shut it down and I went inside to wait on her and she walked in and sat down at the table and I was disgusted and so was she. And she said, well, this ain't working, is it? I said, no, it's not working. Let's take a break, take a few days off, and then let's come back and do an hour a day, see how it goes. And. And amazingly, after a little bit of a break and a few hours, we had her wrapped up and ready to go for the rating. So there is a thing is not flying enough, and there surely is enough that a thing is flying too much. So really, when they say three times a week, maybe four times a week, I think three is like the key number. Three is a great number anyway, and you're gonna hear more about that later with the helicopter threes. Something else that I'm gonna write that's I've been amazed with for a long time, but three days a week and about an hour a day. And I've done a blog on the one hour flight lesson. Any more than an hour in the beginning is a waste of your time and your money. And if you go haul a lot more than three days a week, that's probably a waste, too. I'm not saying you can't do it, but to make full advantage of your time, your money. That's how we got Danny Martin through it in about 40 hours. Because he was smart and he studied hard, and we did a lot of ground in the beginning, and we did a lot of ground along the way. Ground school. So about three times a week, and three times a week, an hour, a day is perfect. And if you can handle things and you got the time, then if you want to do more, you can. But I'm just saying, in this amount of time, that about three times a week, about an hour flight lesson seems to make people the most progress because you have a little bit of time from your lesson, you go home, and some of these things don't sink in for 12 hours or 24 hours or two days later, and maybe you're struggling with something, and then later you go, bam. It hits you and you go, man, I get it now, and I understand where the problem is at. So there you go with number two. How many times a week? About three times a week. All right, stay tuned, and we'll catch you all later. Thanks a lot. We'll see you.
