How should the training industry provide practical assistance in training? Serious question actually.
a- Give dual instruction in VFR GPS use (preceded by instructors getting qualified in VFR GPS instructional techniques).
b- Give classroom instruction in GPS use, in such a way that it satisfactorily transfers to post-PPL gallivanting around the sky.
c- Make it the subject of the CAA magazine, again with the "satisfactory transfer to piloting skills" caveat.
d- All of the above.
e- Don't care, as long as someone else pays for it... (Sorry, had to throw that one in.
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I see problems with cost for a & b. Costs include - instructor training, familiarisation with a wide variety of OEM styles, teaching methods that transfer to all the different GPS's on the market, extra training pre-PPL (say current average +3 hours), equipping crusty old aero clubs with kit, and finally upgrading all the above down the track a wee way. (c) might happen - lobby your favourite CAA office. (d) probably will happen by 2010, and (e) is the current response by most of us.
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