Caveeagle
Contributor
Tell them how to think . It's a pretty small compromise (if they want to see it that way) considering you're paying. No point getting specialty training if you're not going to dive that way.
I hope you are joking. My sarcasm sensor has been broken for a while.
A ton of posts on this thread have agreed that keeping a spare SPG in your gear bag is a good idea, just in case you have a tx failure. Knowing how to set up and use an SPG with your SM config is not a trivial matter. For reasons of trim, functionality of checking them, and gas management, I would be surprised if any SM instructors did not require you to learn/demonstrate this even if you are using AI as your primary monitor.