SRA on pre skill test flight
I was recently charged with the task of taking another instructor’s student on a pre skills test flight. The instructor (A) and student particularly wanted me to go through stalling as the student had done very little on type. On the day in question the cloud was base 1700 tops 2500 broken to 8/8 locally. The base airfield does not have an instrument approach.
The student was briefed and asked it he would like to do an SRA into another relatively local airfield. I like to do this with my own students in order that they might have some idea what to do if things turn nasty weather wise. We duly climbed through the cloud carried out some stalls well clear of cloud and practised position fixing using VOR/DME and some VOR tracking and ADF awareness training. This was followed by the pre arranged and briefed SRA which was carried out successfully.
We duly landed, debriefed, rebriefed the following sortie covering diversions, precautionary landings, short field landings and low-level nav. The student acquitted himself well and I recommended that he take the skills test.
Subsequently the student was taken aside by the CFI and questioned as another instructor (B) from the same school had complained that I was teaching an exercise outside the PPL syllabus.
I am an unrestricted instructor with the applied instrument flying restriction removed.
Was instructor B correct in both his objection and his action?
Your views would be appreciated.
PF