Sounds like a good idea in principle – basically a civvy version of the Line training Flight I went through in trade training at Cosford..
My immediate thoughts however are:
Assuming first you are talking it about it being carried out up your neck of the woods..
Most operators (myself included) are having to perform their hobbies (let’s not forget that is all they are after all) with a very minimal budget..the course initially sounds like it would be an extra outlay which would need to be found, particularly with regard to travel and accomodation. I for one would struggle to find the money to commit to such a scheme.
Secondly, most operators fit the hobby into their spare time, so I imagine timings being an issue. Again, speaking from personal experience, I could only manage 1 day of a weekend, as the other day I need to catch up on domestic duties after spending the first on my hobby!
Lastly, and this may not be case at all actually, just an observation – would hobbyists be all that interested in making their fun, enjoyable passtime a more official, trained and almost certificated project? I think I might not want to get too deep into courses and things and would rather just enjoy learning “on the hoof”. That said, I have had the RAF version of this training so might be biased in that I wouldn’t want to re-tread old ground. I therefore cannot speak for others and offer these comments purely as my inital thoughts.
I can certainly see the possible benefits though, I’m am definitely not knocking your idea 🙂
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