Jim,

You have my sympathies, as a club officer myself in previous years, I have also gone down in flames on numerous occasions.

The points that I made above ARE working in my club. The club has bought into it, the instructor's have bought into it, and the process as a whole seems like it is producing new pilots of respectable level skills.

Again, I am not saying that this is a perfect solution for every club and situation, just one that I have seen work first hand.

Jay