126Driver wrote:
The three levels of instructor is interesting and makes sense.
Another difference seems to be orientation in that there is some
expectation that the student may fly cross country some day. I don't
think this is part of USA instruction.

During my recent checkride for PPL-G, the examiner asked a lot of
questions about landing out, probably more on that than on any other topic
aside from maybe reading sectionals, which has similar applicability. My
instructors similarly asked me about landing out, mainly when we were in
the air and they could show real examples. I fondly remember one wave
flight where we spent probably half an hour picking out fields and
discussing how to land in them.

More advanced topics than this generally were not covered. I think the
idea is that you should know enough to save yourself when you can't make
it back, but anything more is up to you to learn (and get training on, if
you wish) afterwards.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software