Afew years ago after gaining approval to conduct PPL Renewals I was tasked with flying with a current military A1 CFS chap (who also led the current aerobatic team).
To cut a long story short I learnt more in that 1 hour flying than probably any other. He showed me how to teach my max rates just right, and had a great intro to low level flying military style. Over to many cups of coffee some great discusion also on intructional technique. At the time I was working on a low level aero's approval. He had me sit through the ground stuff he gave the next Instructors Course .
Both him and all the military guys I have meet have always been very keen to share their knowledge, and go out of their way to help out.
Would be nice to get perhaps regular mixed siminars on this sort of thing........... I for one am always ready to listen to someone else............. anyone else feel the same ?