[b-rad]

All these guys are legit and all their programs are great...

One thing that makes it very hard to keep things progressing nicely:

The student might just be at your place for a day...in this case you are just another building block added to their learning experience...no time to go over things in proper order...so you are left with determining where they are in the learning cycle and trying to fit in... everyone's program is great (all the legit schools) but they are different...

Standardizing lessons (like with PASA for example) has benefits and problems...

For example, everyone agrees that ground school should come first...but what all should be considered "ground school"?

Picking a group (like PASA or IKO) and all agreeing to adhere to their programs (and together add to the constant improvement of the programs) has lots of obvious benefits for schools and students.

The biggest problem (and it might not be that big) is that you loose a little personal touch with the "system" imposing it's ideas on you... however... we do that plenty with things like: driving, airlines, skydiving... all for the common good... and a good teacher can modify any program to aid the learning process without sacrificing the key elements of each section...

I would say half our students at Seven have had some form of lesson somewhere else...and ours go on to other schools for continued training too...

The trend is obviously to standardize...it has been happening for years now and it can only help the sport...