On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:20:06 -0700 (PDT), N11rdbird
wrote:

The MSL/AGL issue has come before the Caesar Creek Soaring Club Board
once again. Not only has the Club been thrown into turmoil again, this
time it has specifically affected our instructors and how to most
effectively teach our students. I am curious if there are other Clubs
or organizations that teach using AGL.
Rolf Hegele
Member of the Board

Teaching via AGL reduces confusion in one extremely limited context
and massively increases it everywhere else. It must be based on the
assumption that the students are much dumber than power students.

That said, my former home field, the old Black Forest, elevation 7180
MSL, took the idiocy even further: they taught students to set the
altimeter to 7000 for easy subtraction. You can imagine what it would
be like to fly XC that way...

rj