At my "Exceptional" day the first selected component never showed up. Of course we didn't find this out until the other subjects had started so it was too late to join in something else.
In all my years of flying I have never been late or missed a sign-on, it's just not done. Would it have been too hard for the instructor to call earlier so that we could have joined another group. I enjoyed the extra 30 minutes for morning tea but seriously what message are they trying to send out?
On the most part I enjoyed the day, but could have done without the usual "mind mapping" and "finding the real problem" garbage. Usually if my pax tell me they have a problem, what they are telling me IS the problem. I dont need to analyse it for an hour and get back to them to discuss what lead to the problem, I just fix it, that's my job!
