Originally Posted by
rickair7777
If you're just wrapping up the CPL during that time frame, it would be better to take the ride under the old standards...
1. That's what the instructors having been training you towards.
2. That's what they know how to train you towards.
3. That's what the examiners know how check.
If you're on the bleeding edge of something like this, you're a test pilot. We just went through a change of training process at my airline on a particular airplane, and had about a 50% bust rate the first week.
A lot of candidates failed their IR written tests after they started using ACS, all the test prep material was done for the PTS material and Sheppard etc were simply teaching irrelevant things that weren't tested any more.
Just like you said - I'd avoid being an "early adopter" when FAA changes something.