Gregg Ludwig <<email>> writes:

The Scooter Tow instructor clinic provider must have an appointment as a Basic or Advance instructor as well as  a Scooter Tow Supervisor or Scooter Tow Administrator and have attended a Scooter Tow clinic or be listed on the USHPA approved short list of providers. Steve Wendt is already an Scooter Administrator.

A funded clinic still has to be approved by the Tow Committee and the Executive Committee. This is the USHPA short list:  Dave Broyles, Greg Berger, Pat Denevan, Steve Wendt, and Mark Windsheimer.

We intend to post the "standard" syllabus developed by Steve and others, however, providers still have the option to submit their own syllabus for approval.

So here we have the man reputed to be the most dangerous and accident prone in hang gliding approved to instruct others in scooter tow techniques (see pictures and videos in the Oz Report, pictures taken by me). That's what you get when you have an organization like the USHPA.

My question here is does the USHPA really have a handle on what should be taught and how it should be taught? The syllabus below doesn't provide much of an answer.

If you want to become a qualified instructor with excellent technique I suggest you forgo this program, contact Steve Wendt directly and work out an instruction program with him.