I came up from Africa moons ago to fly for a UK airline as a direct entry captain.
The crew room was amply staffed with ex RAF wallahs who, with little disrespect intended to them, seemed to adopt the attitude that since they had had to find out the hard way, so should I.
There were a couple of note worthy exceptions to this, men who, once they realized that I had never seen a snowflake or experienced airfarme icing did really try to help.
This Jinkster chap is obviously a man of ability. Somewhere he posted a photograph of himself which showed a highly developed cranium, indicative of the potential for serious mental capacity. He should be encouraged and not disparaged for asking a senible question on a Flight Instructor Forum.
For my part; I prepared brilliant long briefs, yonks ago, on all the flight and classroom sequences. The excercise of doing so helped me to polarise the mind as to what to teach (that's the name of the game-not so?) the student in order to ensure that he got the best benefit of my limited knowledge and to try to guarentee that, when he finally found his way into the air, he would not try to kill me when I was there at the same time. It's all plaigarism anyway and the only sort of aviaiton idol we really don't want to plaigarize is Douglas Bader, who, as we all know, ended up legless for a rather silly aeronautical mistake based primarily upon his own hubris rather than a sense of good airmanship!
Boom Boom!!
By the bye, unless I am very much mistaken, which never happens; Jinkster lives at KGB HQ, Moscow. Not a man to irritate then!