flight systems does school training?
i thought all they did was repair control boards and such

yes a week long training class is very expensive, especially if they put you up in a hotel too and pay for all your meals etc.

Back when i worked for Yale Carolinas they sent me and one other tech to a week long school in thier Greenville NC Plant on the SEM Control System when they first introduced them in the ERC series trucks. Was a good school :o)
I think the whole class had about 40 techs from all over, most from gregory poole.

Of course after that they (Yale Caro) started bringing in an engineer from Yale and doing those cheap 2 day training classes at the shop.
Cramming in all that stuff in 2 days was a pain i tell ya... doh!

From what i'm hearing now nacco is requiring thier dealerships to have thier tech's certified on any truck before they can work on it, or at least thats what i'm being told. I have a feeling this is more for warranty purposes than anything but i could be wrong. I suppose there might be a certain liability to working on those emissions systems, i've just never had to go to that length before to be qualified to work on them.