Originally Posted by GuinnessQueen
But surely you have read either the Trevor Thom manuals or the AFE / similar manuals, and then sat the PPL exams?
Err..No
When I learnt to fly in the mid 80's (and bear in mind I'm only 43) the "manuals" were Birch and Bransom Vol 1 and Cap 85. The latest and greatest computer on the block was the Sinclair spectrum and the Internet was a decade or so in the future. I also bought one of the first Gps units in 1991.
For Notams I used to visit the Clearance office of my local airport and in the office next door was the Met office where I could always get a personal briefing from a forcaster.
If you were trained in this era and only flew from a farm strip, unless you are technically savy it would be very easy to just sit there bemoaning the passing of met offices etc without realising that there are other alternatives.
What has the CAA done to alert the non computer owning, non magazine reading 1980's (or 50's/60's/70's) PPL to the change in ways of obtaining info?
It is possible that some might have assumed that the info had been abolished in government cuts.
Just playing devils advocate you understand
