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Hi,
I am hearing some extraordinary stories about how a lot of present operators received their licenses, the stories are amazing.
From one guy who with no experience whatsoever spent 4 hours of his time with some training company and came out with a licence. (He did have to pay $600) To another guy who had 12 trainees in his class and was certified in 8 hours, now if I can assume that the classroom presentation took 4 hours,(which is inadequate) that's 20 minutes for each trainee to practice and go through pre-use training, familiarisation asessment etc.
What's happening out there?? What's the strangest story you have heard?
  • Posted 12 Nov 2009 11:45
  • By paddyB
  • joined 23 Apr'09 - 51 messages
  • Queensland, Australia

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