Presumably a 'Stell' helmet is painted orange Dan?
Looking at some of the FI seminar topics on offer, I don't want to be force fed 'how to teach' stuff or to be taught how to use a sticky pen and OHP. But neither do I want to be talked down to by a lecturer full of his own importance stuck on transmit.
Regrettably,too much time is devoted to the rather fatuous 'syndicate exercises' which are a complete waste of time.
We need standardisation discussions, solutions to common student faults, updates on new policy - that sort of thing. For example, how many people know that a re-test following a PPL Skill Test partial pass now only requires assessment of the aerodrome departure procedure plus the failed items - the return and landing is no longer assessed unless it was an earlier fail item.
And how many FIs understand the changes in C of A regulations pre-EASA?
Seminars should tell us all this - not just huggy-fluffy trick cyclist teachy-learny guff.