Igneousy2.. you've got to be kidding me. 3 hours of pure BAI training would drive most people completey insane. I could be wrong but it seems to me that flying an approach is pretty solid BAI training. Teach above and beyond the standards. If you can fly good BAI while tracking a localizer and a glideslope you are certainly well prepared to make a 180 degree turn out of the clouds. I'm not saying I teach my private students all about an approach setup and make them do the whole thing. But many good private students can take BAI to the level of being able to track a needle while descending(otherwise known as an instrument approach). If a student can do climbs, turns, and descents under the hood after .5 of hood time, I feel it would be a waste of my students money to continue to make them do that for an additional 2.5 hours. In fact an instructor that makes a student continue to do the same exercise just to fill a requirement when they are competent at it after 1/2 an hour is my textbook definition of a poor instructor not serving their student. So please don't be advising students that they need to switch instructors b/c their instructor chose to challenge them.
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