Whirly wrote:
I've suffered from instructors who insist on having things done Their Way and no other. I've seen people who can prepare beautiful charts and then get lost, and others whose preparation looks a mess, but who get where they're going. Whose navigation is best, do you think?
Absolutely right. I have suffered similarly at the hands of an inflexible instructor when moving from one method of downwind checks (eg.) to another at a new school. Having learned one method, it rolls off the tongue in my head with ease and over the years I have steadfastly stuck to it as if it were a company SOP, it does not let me down. If I had not argued strongly and stuck to my guns there would be a land of confusion with each change of instructor. I always prefer aviation to be repetitive to the point of boredom, then mistakes don't get made in the preamble and I free up capacity to notice and learn something else. I wonder if this chap whose technique is being examined had continuity of training or consistent methods taught?