....All their ads (Sportys and King) .... claim
their courses are for "Private Pilot" - no "airplane" qualifier
obvious to me, anyway. No doubt they believe that goes without saying
in their airplane-centric world.


This is a pretty accurate observation. The same holds true for NAFI
(National Association of Flight Instructors) and is why I (rather
loudly) resigned from that organization in protest.

Back in 2002, in their printed monthly news letter, they announced that
the PTS (Practical Test Standard) was changing and that we needed to
prepare our students for the new tests. I sent them a very polite letter
that said it was only the *airplane* PTS that was changing and to please
send a correction in their regular weekly emailed news updates. They
didn't. A subsequent flurry of emails showed that they absolutely didn't
care about non-airplane instructors. And, since I instruct only in
gliders, there was no point in me being part of that organization.

Tony V.
http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING