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>make that a *paper* TDI instructor, as you yourself have
>spend endless flames emphasising - that you got your
>cert by merely asking.  This is Hypocrasy to an unbearable
>level.  We all know this had nothing to do with Palmer's death.

Under TDI rules, initial certification of the instructor candidate is at
the Instructor Trainer's discretion.  As was reported here, and I may still
have Trout's writeup on disk (he posted it to one of the lists), Jesse
Armantrout called Bret Gilliam and asked if he could certify George M.
Irvine III as a TDI trimix instructor, based solely on what he knew,
without having formally put him through a course, and Bret said it was
Jesse's call, but that he would have to document what he was doing, and
what made him believe that George was in fact qualified.

Trout wrote this all up when the letter kicking George out was made public.

If you believe that Trout would sign a card for ANYONE at ANY level without
being very damned certain that that person knew what they were doing, well,
you don't know Trout very well.
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