"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
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You keep claiming that few will have the incentive or will to progress
from
the FL- if this were the case then the market for the books would be
unecomonically small- especially as there are alternative sources of free
study material.

I quite agree. But the RSCB can't seem to see this.

Oh, as I believe is the case, they can see the progression is happening and
are not basing their actions on half baked bigotry.

When our club formed earlier in the year we had 25 or so members- mostly M3,
some 2Es and 3 Full licensees. We've grown to 30 or so, all the newcomers
were either M3s or not licensed.

We've now got 5 Full licensees (plus hopefully another after Monday's RAE
exam) and only a handfull of M3s- all the rest have progressed to the IL and
most of those are working on the new Full licence exam (three are delaying
for good reasons).

At the Train the Trainers there were 35+ tutors planning and expecting to
run replacement RAE courses, as well as IL courses. One club has coures
booked up a year in advance (and not just FL courses either). I'm having
to coach some M3s through their IL in parallel with running a replacement
RAE course as they want to do the Feb 04 Full exam. I've already got
'names' for the next IL course- probably no due to start before Mar 04.

Not exactly indicative of no one wanting to progress, is it?

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73
Brian
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