Strange Instructing Practices
They do sound like strange practices indeed. I / we never taught anything like that.
The fuel to climb issue might be a result of a School operations manual requiring a cover-all conservative fuel flow being used in planning. Which is not an excuse for a student not knowing the POH fuel flows, I agree.
There are certainly issues with the training industry, in that fresh CPLs with instructor ratings do not by definition have the long years of aviation experience that they could impart to students. This is not a new problem, and is bemoaned on these boards with monotonous regularity. What would be far more interesting is hearing ideas from others out there of how these problems could be reduced.
Bear in mind to that there are good insturctors, and schools, out there that do their best to teach safe and competent pilots.
Last edited by RogerRamjet01; 25th Jul 2013 at 23:46.