Silver fox, WWW
I defer to your greater knowlege. However I do feel that in the great AOPA, JAA and other Verbose bods discussion of the syllabus, certain short cuts were made to make the whoile thing 'affordable'. Now if affordable means dangerous, then I'm a monkey. As the great man (My PPL examiner) said, this is a licence to LEARN to fly, not a licence to FLY.