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Old 16th May 2004 | 15:22
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FlyingForFun

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Foz,

As Tacpot has said (thanks Tacpot!) I'm always happy to answer questions on these forums (or anywhere else, for that matter). I always try to provide a reference, too, so that others can not only check that my answer is correct, but also find the answers themselves in future.

Questions such as this pop up regularly on both Private Flying and Wannabes, but from the short time that I've been reading the Instructors forum regularly I would say they are quite rare here. The reason for that, I would guess, is because part of the job of the instructor is to know where to find the answers. Not to know the answers, but to at least know where to find the relevant documents (they are almost all on-line now) and how to use them. That way, when a student has a question, you are in a position to not only give him the answer, but to help him find the answers to future questions himself, much as I try to do on the forums.

I hope ATMLboro found my answer useful, and has gone away to LASORS to look up those requirements which I referred to but omitted the details. Once he has mastered the trick of finding the information himself, I'm sure he will be in a good position to be able to pass the skill on to his students in his future career as an instructor. I hope I haven't made him feel unwelcome on PPRuNe - that wasn't my intention at all, and if I've done so then I apologise - but I don't apologise for the tone of my first reply, because I think that finding information is an essential skill.

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