Classic salesperson's BS.
ComradeRoo,
Please enlighten us on your history and success in running a small business.
For what it's worth, Clare Prop has run a flying school for nearly 20 years that I know if and I am only a few years behind her.
You are quite correct that the reality is quite the opposite. That means that when we use up our instructor's precious Duty time, someone has to pay for that.
Free exams built into a contract price probably suit a sausage factory flying school. Small schools are different and "private" tuition is a valuable one-on-one commodity.
To those asking how often a BAK exam needs to be reviewed: you might have noticed there was a major change in the syllabus in Sept 2014. To the owner of a small school (who is also HAAMC, CFI, and CP, and head of finance, and head of HR, and Ops Manager, and Chief Ground Instructor, and Safety Manager, and Quality Manager) this has set off a tsunami of manual changes at a level of detail you probably don't comprehend (CASA certainly don't). As time passes we find more issues, or have them brought to our attention, and in between doing all the other crap (oh and answering the phone to answer client queries and getting interupted by staff who need that bit more guidance and mentoring, willingly given, rarely appreciated or repaid) we might get to delegate the review of the exams or do it ourselves late one night after getting the kids to bed and sorting out tomorrow's dramas before they happen.
....and then tomorrow, in addition to flying, we have to put on a brave face and smile and trot out "Salesperson BS" BECAUSE OUR HOMES AND YOUR JOBS depend on it, and yes it feels like Salesman BS to us, too, because we have completely lost our love for the industry through putting up with airports, and putting up with CASA and putting up with local Councils, and putting up with Aero Clubs, and putting up with cnuts like you every day.
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