Rainpilot:I don't believe that training has been watered down, at the agency level.
I wonder if we are approaching agreement here. Sure seems like it.At the agency level, though, there has been no loss of standards.
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Rainpilot:I don't believe that training has been watered down, at the agency level.
I wonder if we are approaching agreement here. Sure seems like it.At the agency level, though, there has been no loss of standards.
I believe that is why I quoted that line in my post and emphasized it in my first sentence.I wonder if we are approaching agreement here. Sure seems like it.
Was it? How do you know? It is certainly longer, and if you believe that anything longer must necessarily be better....
Then I'm not the instructor for them. I go well above and beyond the minimum
Was it? How do you know? It is certainly longer, and if you believe that anything longer must necessarily be better....
What you seem to be saying is that a longer class cannot be better than a shorter one. A substandard instructor will teach a substandard class regardless of time, an excellent instructor can use added time to develop a divers competence.
No, I never said anything remotely like that. I just wrote a post in which I said that many short classes, including the one I took myself, were accomplished by violating standards. That's not good. How you can read that post and say I am making the preposterous statement that shorter classes are always better is beyond me.What you seem to be saying is that a longer class cannot be better than a shorter one.
Yeah, why get the mechanic who takes ten times longer to do the same job and charges a lot more, rather than a much quicker one who produces a superior job?I was going back to the post to quote you for an answer to this but the post dissapered. In any event, the quote was along the lines of not having a mechanic take any longer than necessary to change the brakes...