There are PLENTY of people learning to fly every week who will conduct Training Fixes with their instructor. I REALLY don't think there is any mileage in the argument that you are helping out D&D with their currency in making Training Fix calls when in fact you are LOST.
By all means use D&D when lost just DON'T try and disguise the fact by LYING and asking for a Training Fix.
This just goes to underline the poor quality of training received by many PPLs who seemingly think its somehow 'better' to disguise the fact that they are lost with D&D. What the heck were their instructors teaching them?! That D&D are some facist CAA narks just waiting to punish them for being lost in the first place?!?
This culture of Training Fix should not be tolerated and I encourage all PPL's to condemn it in their peers. If someone feels in some way inhibited in admitting to D&D that he is lost then he/she needs a slight re-education. NOT to be encouraged into thinking being sly about it is a good way around the problem: there is no problem!
What next? Turning off your transponder if you think you've bust controlled airspace? Asking for 15 degrees to the left to avoid weather that isn't there? Following IR minimas when you only hold an IMC rating? Flying out of club currency and forgetting to mention it?
Come on chaps.
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