Oops pardon me strate and level, you mention
fuel planning, silly me was that not part of one examination for the CPL, I remember now, plot the fuel burn and route for a 707! So you relate passing all the exams in a silly space of time, to how good a new pilot would be at plotting a fuel burn? Hmmmm moving swiftly on.
Absorbing information is one thing, having all examinations taken off of you becasuse you failed one question on human performance is something else. I maintain my view that this is entirely unfair, it is no wonder that the states has such a buoyant general aviation market, and we in comparison dont.
The reason is that they want people to fly, sadly the same cannot be said for the CAA. General Aviation and professional training will continue to die a slow death in this country, more and more wannabe's will be put of by the high cost of training for the theory and moving of goalposts by the CAA.
To those of you that are naive enough to think that this is a fair system,I would like to point out that many pilots were trusted to go on bombing raids in the war with very little experience both in terms of theory and flight.