Originally Posted by
konkapot
I ran the HOTP that Kyle did the writeup about, and am The Guy for HOTP here in Cheltenham.
JLW-Your questions about the course of fire are all answered with a "yes."
Target changeover/headshot scoring took about 3 minutes; at Cheltenham we have really small class sizes, and we prepped new targets ahead of time. Make it a big class, be "short" on instructors, and don't prep and things will definately take longer.
CoF was not super complicated (see preparation comment above.) Remember also that as full time instructors we are, sometimes, pretty competent at this stuff.
It's a 4 day class, and in both classes this year we qualed on TD3, which starts to indicate that maybe 4 days is not truly necessary.
Target is basically an IDPA target-ish. The -0 ring counts as 5 points. There's a thin scoring ring around that that counts as 3 points, the rest of the body is 1 point. Called headshots count as 5.
Random:
The first class was agency specific for a large uniformed agency in the DC area. All slots were reserved for them, but they ultimately ended up only using 3 of the 12. The other 9 slots were occupied by a random group of guys. Three of the class were shooters, three were not, and three showed up thinking it was going to be gentlemans course; show up, talk about gear, shoot the PPC and call it a day.
Second class (the one Kyle took) was also agency specific. I'd say that there were 3-4 shooters and the rest were solid dudes. Time permitting, I wanted to have everyone shoot the CoF with irons just to see.
I am not convinced that we've cured cancer or divided by zero with this dot thing.
Someone mentioned about the FLETC PPC and "stats to back it up." Anytime any FLETC instructor claims to have "stats" or "studies" call them out to their face right there on the spot. Demand to see the "study" or the "stats." Hell, offer to paypal them $1000 to see the "study" or "stats."