standards
No doubt that the three companies; AOPA, On-Track and The Flight Training Agency put a lot of work into the seminars and do provide a reasonable package for the money. The group briefing sadly being not much more than a pantomime but a JAA requirement none the less; a lot of jolly folk working late into the night cutting out lots of complicated cardboard shapes. A good wease is to do a PowerPoint prezz and get the job of laptop operator - don't have to say a thing and make a fool of ones self that way.
It is always revealing at these events just how disprit the UK standards are applied but no less so amongst the presenters themselves. As northsouth implies, no one leaves after the two days with a singular idea of a prefered standard in anything much at all.
At one seminar a staff instructor did not mention the rudder once in his lecture 'Recovery From a Spin - defending this, "most ab-initios are so incompetent at using it" he prefered that they didn't and so, simply tells them "leave the bloody thing alone". At another seminar, a lecture on 'Achieving straight and level Flight by Sole Reference to Instruments', the rudder was not mentioned; "this briefing is to do with achieving and maintaining S&L flight by SOLE reference to the aircraft instruments". As if that made a difference and somehow the aircraft dosn't yaw in cloud.
Oh well! Lets all carry on turning up but doing our own thing until something better comes along.