HC - I just wanted to clarify that being a trainer on a SAR L2 does not make you a SAR trainer on the L2 which is what your post rather implied
some of the pilots didn't see why they needed to be able to do all the stuff in a standard LPC since some was not relevant to their role
can't see whay any of that LPC stuff isn't considered relevant - maybe your pilots needed a bit of military re-briefing about professionalism
When there are reasonably good visual references it is a good thing to fly manually especially for the young chaps with limited exposure to manual flying
isn't that even more important to do in less than CAVOK conditions so they gain experience?
Phone Wind
Hmmm. Tin gods comes to mind. We seem to have a lot of those in aviation
the difference is in being able to show you can do it better, rather than just telling them you can