Teacherjh wrote:

Just because it's permitted doesn't make it smart. As pilots, we are
expected to excercise judgement, as student pilots that expectation is
somewhat less
(that's why we're not signed off yet). I think it's best that we actually
=get= to excercise judgement, rather than have it excerciesd for us.

That is a reasonable point. But a course in weather flying, be it pre- or
post-PPL, would still be something useful, I think.

- Andrew