Originally Posted by
mad_jock
If you check again the quote was to do with converting someone onto a new type in the SEP class.
Hence the discussion about who is best to do such conversions.
Although, I can see some sense in what Darkroomsource is saying. There is a general approach (in my experience anyhow) within British light civil aviation that if you are going to fly a new aircraft type, you turn up, get a short briefing, fly the aeroplane with the instructor / checkee, then take it from there.
Yet I don't think that this exists anywhere else. If you are converting to a jet, you can expect a week or more in the classroom these days before you get to go anywhere near the aeroplane (or increasingly, simulator). In FAA land a short quiz based upon the POH is fairly normal before flying an aircraft for the first time, whilst the military in the UK certainly expects a pilot do do some considerable study before getting into a new type.
Is there perhaps a bit of a cultural error in the UK, that I'm just seeing one symptom of?
G