Originally Posted by
Globe Trotter
Standards units have a lot to offer, but frequently while they are good at assessing the delivery of sequences, they are not so good at assessing the holistic approach to instruction that is required for real students.
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I was unable to change this fixation on delivering sequences by pre-OCU standards units, despite my best efforts.
My point is simply that teaching, adapted to suit the student, is the proper way to serve the student body.
Was this a consequence of the systems approach to flying training?
Certainly up until about 1989 the nav syllabus was designed to load the student progressively with more procedures to absorb spare capacity and place them under pressure with techniques not employed outside the nav school. From the 90s there was a step changing in training with lots of NEC chopped from the syllabus.