...there's a danger of turning things into art forms that are not worthy of the same.
I couldn't agree more, wiggy! My aim was always K.I.S.S. when teaching applied instrument procedures. Whereas some of the stuff spouted by old Varsity QFIs and the Kidlington dinosaurs who tried to make the NDB hold an art form with their 'gates' etc..... "Remember, the NDB is a
non-precision system" was my mantra.
One old duffer used to have some complicated trigonometrical solution for working out the time to turn after the overhead at the limits of Sector 3 joins. To which the rest of us would say "Just count a couple of crocodiles, turn, then restart the watch when you go abeam. Then refine it when you're next inbound to the beacon!"
I have to say that teaching this stuff was
not my favourite activity!