I pointed the CFI at LASORS and the application form (FCL 111) but he wouldn't budge, kept insisting I wasn't safe until I'd done a solo trip.
Instructor wouldn't let me do (attempt) the solo nav trip until I'd performed satisfactorily on the dual nav trip. I was pretty pissed off because my only fault on the first nav trip was I wandered off course within the first 10 minutes of leaving the circuit and couldn't locate myself quickly enough. After that problem the rest of that nav trip went fine, as did the following dual trip. I was expecting to be signed off at that point!
But no, you have five minutes of Night Nav instruction and five minutes to prove you've absorbed everything!
I don't see a point going to the CAA, I don't think they will over turn this examiner's decision, unless anyone knows otherwise...
I might try to obtain my training record (to pass onto my next school
) to see if the CFI wasn't telling me something my instructor should have.
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