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Old 7th December 2009 | 01:08
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BHenderson
 
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Claude; I thought my reply was balanced, recommending that the student got opinions from current students - something which my reply seems to have prompted - in your favour. So I don't think your challenge was even necessary.

I never said nor implied that I knew anything about the school other than what I had read on your website. In fact, I was just warning the guy not to be drawn in by a website, as quite often it is not representative of the business. I accept that I should have been less colourful with my language.

It seems that you have changed your website to remove the references to the 'Aviation Educator Course' to 'Flight Instructor Course', which changes how it's perceived.

I am still of the opinion that 10 days for an instrument rating is ridiculous. Over 4 hours hood-time, per day, all in the aircraft?! "40% of people have a maximum attention span of 37 minutes... whilst driving" (Institute of Advanced Motorists, 2009), which is much simpler than flying on instruments. In my experience, the UK CAA generally imposes a limit on PPL training of 3 hours per day, with a rest day every 4 days. I assume you don't charge for taxi time since you can't log 'instrument taxi time'?
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