Incorrect or Inappropriate CCR Protocols

[rjack]

If I went to you now as a Meg diver, who was trained properly, a crossover should take no more than a day. Your unit is derived from a Meg so assembly and packing the scrubber is basically identical. Yours has a bov and bmcl's, but I can just as easily buy those from you today for my meg with no xover training and be in compliance, so assuming I was taught properly, and assuming your manual includes all of the "nuances" of how to dive that unit *of which I'm not sure since I can buy a shrimp and your bmcl's if I wanted to which would net a functionally identical rebreather*, what do I get out of the crossover aside from warm fuzzies?
If I came from a revo, sidekick, SF2/RB80 etc. then sure there are things that you are actually going to learn since the units are quite different due to the integrated counterlungs, but assuming the diver was trained properly, what are you really going to teach them? Again, genuine question since you brought up nuances.

Crossing over from a Meg to a Kiss (sidewinder) I got a fair amount out of the course even if some of it was just swimming around. At a certain level the only thing that you really need is time in the water. For units that you have to "wear" like the sidewinder and other SM units, getting them setup, rigged, and "fitted" is not as obvious as it looks. Could this have been articulated in a manual? Maybe. But I cant see myself getting it right. And even if I did try to set this up myself and had another non-instructor film me to see what required adjusting it would have taken considerably longer and I probably still wouldn't have gotten to a reasonably polished state. I suspect this would have been similar on other units that aren't just a tube with a loop out the top and 3L tanks on the sides. That's not based on anything other than seeing threads go by from people asking for help setting the harness on their revos or the nuances of having a CL on your butt.