Originally Posted by
Grumble
It requires some effort and creativity. For instance take two students, one sits in back and watches, doesn't get charged anything. Free learning. Land 50+ miles away and swap, do the same lesson going home. Beneficial for everyone.
There are ways to get the mins if you actually try.
This is really easy to do in the two-seat trainers that I instruct in.
I guess if I "actually try" I would have figured out how to dismember the second student, shove them in the baggage compartment, and then put them back together to fly us home on the return leg.
I am also finding this 50nm XC the hardest minimum to meet. I try to drag the students 50 miles away when I can, but our scheduling and course syllabus is very strict and does not allow for much in the way of combining lessons and whatnot :(. Also, our FSDO has recently come down on our CFI's for doing cross country flights on lessons that are specified as locals. According to our POI we are in violation of the FAA approved TCO when doing that :rolleyes: