> Please don't think of a trip abroad as an easy or cheap option towards
> qualification - after 2 weeks, you are *not* equipped to asses the very
> different conditions encountered in another country. This takes most of us
> at least a couple of years to begin doing this even reasonably well.
>
> Stroller.

I think you misunderstood, it's not an easy or cheap option (your
assumption) I was looking for, but fairly guaranteed weather whilst ensuring
a suntan. The current exchange rate is a bonus but hardly makes a up for
the additional cost of training aboard, except that you are less likely to
get weathered out.

As any qualification goes its simply a minimum standard achieved, I don't
see any single qualification as particularly important, rather the quality
of training, building a strong skill set and learning good decision making.
Having taught various adventure sports professionally for some years I've
seen the results of good instruction, while instilling a safe and conscious
attitude in the students, especial in rather unforgiving sports such as
climbing, skydiving and flying.

Fortunately I have a couple more weeks of additional flying to consolidate
my course before I return to a new job teaching PPC and skydiving in Spain.
I appreciate each sport has it own unique hazards, but good practise and
awareness in one aviation discipline often encourages a healthy respected
and certain intuitiveness for survival in other.

- Pete Mac

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