Yep. A BS story. That isn't what happened at all.

I completed my PPL in March 2018. I've been at 2 different schools here in Calgary and have had 6 different instructors, and they all charge only for the actual length of the brief. Most of the briefs were short 0.2 or 0.3. The xcountry was longer at 2.0. For most solos they charged 0.2 as a standar...