Heston,Pace.
I respect your experience etc. but I think you are missing my point or I've not made it well enough.
Why are you still concentrating on the poor student, however rich/inept/deluded he may or may not be?
This is a schools/instructing issue which the hapless student can all but go along with-
only 1 body is to blame for producing a 'non-compliant' student after 45 hours and that is the school that gave/allowed him 45 hours of 'non-compliant' flying and is now complaining about it!
How about give him his money back and then tell him thanks but no thanks? 'Sorry sir but that 45 hours we gave you was a pile of pants and of little use towards your PPL- would you recommend us please?'
Is that likely?
rnzoli:
The quote you highlight is responding to a very specific claim.
Read the context of the OP and subsequent posts and it clearly runs towards a requirement of the skills test/exam 'on the day'
and again the point I make above is the point being made substantially.
Of course those other things are required on-going.
funfly:
I think that the posters on here are in danger of using one very bad (and frustrating) example to question all students.
I am questioning the schools not the students. Keep up at the back!