SAR Fundamentals/Scheduling

Over the years we've evolved requirements for our schedule.

The mock search (Evening 5) be on a day that is during standard time (not daylight savings) so that a night search experience can be generated. Or base on time of sunset, comparing with previous courses.
The course be run as two weekends (Fri-Sun) to minimize the number of conflicts the students have to schedule around.
None of the weekends are long weekends. People tend to be away.
The weekends are not back to back, to allow the instructors to recuperate.
The weekends are not more than 3 weeks apart to keep the learnings fresh in the students minds.
schedule first weekend at least 1 week after regular training night in month to allow last minute registrations
plan to have two days of "burn-out" after each weekend.
check phase of the moon for mock search
verify availability of instructors and people to organize mock search