wrote:
Ah, you really don't need to be X-C pilot to teach the fundamentals of
flight. In fact, so long as an instructor is dedicated to his art, that
is, teaching, he can take most students quite far without any X-C
experience of his own.

Is he a better instructor for having done it himself? Of course, and so
I would encourage him to expand his own horizons. But I wouldn't be too
hasty to disqualify him because he has little or no X-C experience...


I suppose you are an instructor for saying such crap. One of the reasons
why soaring is not going too well is the existence of instructors of
this sort. In my opinion an instructor who is not proficient in XC is
totally disqualified to teach soaring, because he doesn't know squat in
what is the essence of soaring. I had the chance of getting some
lessons with an instructor who was both young and dedicated to XC, this
changed everything in my perception of the sport and i understood i had
completely lost my time with the other guys.



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Michel TALON