Originally Posted by
TonyF
I also completely agree with Jim's initial post that the box should be eliminated. I lose the vast majority of the people I get to fly pattern when they move from Sportsman to Intermediate.
That's an interesting point. We've slightly done the opposite here in Aus by adding two turnarounds to the Sportsmen (entry level) schedule, forcing the box into that class for part of the schedule to "aid the transition".
Personally I don't think it will help sportsmen pilots become better flyers, however the argument was that it would be better (not sure what metric they are going to use to measure that?) and sportsmen pilots wanted it to so it was done. Time will tell...