HWD and Robdesbois,
I agree entirely with you both and had I realised that Cameltoe was still a stude, my first post would have been different. I've found that there is always 1 more opinion than there are people in a discussion (there's always one joker with two views!) and my ability to sort the wheat from the chaff has only increased with my own experience. As a student and new PPL, I didn't have the wherewithall to question anything I was being told by anyone, but as I learned through my own experience, that ability has continued to grow (and long may it do so).
What I was responding to in my last was Cameltoe's attitude toward the replies, which was a rather childish "I'll just do what you tell me and take no responsibility for the outcome and if I crash it'll all be your fault" which was both an overdramatisation of the situation and a rather poor attitude for a student to take when receiving the benefit of experience he actually asked for in the first place.
The real issue is with a PPL syllabus that teaches flying by rote memory and procedure more than thought process and analysis, but there's nowt I or Cameltoe can do about that.
Pitts2112
And I was serious about the offer to host CT at Popham.