"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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This Company Has Triggered My Bull**** Detector.

Maybe you triggered theirs. I have gathered from your pseudonym and past
posts that "up here" is the Pacific Northwest, or thereabouts. From my
initial IFR training a decade ago, to recent competency checks, I've never
had an instructor balk at giving instruction in actual instrument
conditions. I had 20 hours of actual when I passed my instrument checkride.

Based on my experience, I find your self-admitted claims that instruction in
actual instrument conditions is unavailable to be outright false. Who knows
what else you said to the folks that was similarly unfounded (after all,
we're just getting one side of the story...I'm sure we'd have at least a
slightly different "take" if there was an actual audio recording of your
conversation we could listen to).

Maybe they just don't want someone who hasn't done due diligence in their
own neighborhood coming down to California and having unreasonable
expectations about what's possible there?

Pete