Originally Posted by
aerospacepilot
Finally, ground training is very important. 20 minutes is not a long briefing, infact I would 20 minutes is typical, if not less than it should be (for important flights).
Unless the student has a few questions, I'd say that 20 minutes is longer than necessary for the preflight brief of a local VFR training flight. Any new manuevers should have been discussed during a ground lesson prior to the lesson in which they'll be flown; old manuevers will not require a 20-minute recap unless, as I said before, the student comes armed with questions.