Cusco,
I agree. The view in all the JAA TK schools until the Flyer group came along was that "ordinary" PPLs would struggle with the JAA IR Theory course, and need the laborious groundschool distance learning and 2 classroom weeks in full to be able to get through the exams.
What you guys proved was that it was very doable with a paperless course and a couple of classroom days. The track record for the group has been an astonishingly good pass rate (near perfect I believe) for all the guys who've taken the exams.
This has been a real breakthrough for the JAA IR (ironically coming 10 years too late...) and to a very great degree removes what was historically a very major barrier. I wasted many years of G-reg ownership without an IR, and would have done one if this exam route had been available. I simply was never going to spend half my annual vacation in a theory classroom.
brgds
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