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Old 23rd Jun 2004, 21:45
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BEagle
 
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EFTS groundschool

A query to those who teach at EFTS. Do you teach your students how to use the Dalton navigation computer? The reason I ask is that we've recently had ex-EFT students sitting their PPL exams and it's fairly obvious that they haven't been taught how to find their own arseholes without a mirror, let alone how to navigate a light aeroplane in UK airspace....

They say that all they've been taught to use is MDR and that they have never even seen a Dalton computer, let alone been taught how to use it. Please tell me that this isn't so and they're just bull****ting - I simply cannot believe that such a very basic skill is no longer taught to 'professional' military pilots......
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