In rec.aviation.student WJRFlyBoy wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:29:35 -0600, Michael Ash wrote:

I am asking the group for assistance in developing a list of instructional
and solo experiences, testing, mandatory reading.....if you ran the FAA,
what would you require in a near-perfect world that a PPL would require? I
am a zero-hour wannabe pilot FYI

Outlandings and assembly/disassembly. The PTS covers both in extremely
light detail. I would like to see much greater detail applied to both. In
particular, I had never assembled or disassembled a glider, aside from
helping to hold up wingtips and such, until after my checkride. I think
every student should be taken to the point where he can be the lead on
assembly or disassembly, at least for one particular type. He should also
be able to walk through an outlanding from start to finish, including
dealing with locals and police and handling the retrieve crew.

Of course this is pretty glider-specific. The equivalent for "normal"
flying would, I imagine, be how to travel with a plane, how to deal with
courtesy cars and arrange transportation at the destination and so forth,
which I've seen talked about here as lamentably un-discussed during
training.

lol

I am told this is "glider-boy" downspeak.

I can assure you that it is no such thing. I merely related some things
which I thought were lacking in my training, and compared them to
deficiencies I'd seen talked about in here.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software