I have an FI renewal coming up, either a flight test of a seminar.
The examiner knows his stuff, it is a worthwhile lesson as well as a test.
The seminars are generally hosted by some very very skilled and knowledgeable people.
However by the second day they are tiresome. After doing two of these they are irksome.
I am looking at a third one shortly, I am thinking of letting my rating go than spending £450 on the course, hotel, food, fuel etc.
Really, is that the best way to keep an instructor interested? Especially when they are on £20 an hour, before tax.
Some of the lectures in the seminars are just completely pointless.
So why not every year an examiner comes to the school, sits through a couple of lessons, gives the blurb that the CAA want you to know and then picks a couple of names out of the hat and do a flight test with them.
Then get the school to cough up, or better still the CAA.
As you can bet your next pint, they are not going to charge their staff to do a career development course or a personal growth retreat.