have 10 years of experience as an in-classroom technical training instructor: four-and-a-half years in Air Force technical schools and five-and-a-half years in civil aviation technician training schools. I was also a corporate technical trainer for three years and developed computer-based-training (CBT) courses as a full-time job for six years. The Air Force and civil aviation maintenance technician training courses I taught were concentrated into six-hour days, five days a week, with each course lasting six weeks. These courses were presented back-to-back, year-round, with no summer or semester breaks. Consequently, I amassed thousands of hours of direct
