| Ive taught people in BCDs and Wings a lot over the last year and provided you start with one and continue with it throughout i've not noticed a shred of difference between the 2.
A wing is just a BCD - its got a hose with buttons to put air in and air out, its got a toggle dump on the rear. No difference there, looks the same, works the same and takes them just as long to adjust to as a BCD.
Now the HARNESS i can appreciate may take a bit longer *IF* you go for a one piece or one without adjustments as you'd need to fiddle a bit to get it right for them initially - hell it might even add 15 minutes per student for the entire course. After that though, nothing different to a BCD at all.
(and obviously you don't need to go for non adjustable harnesses if the above is an issue).
I really cant see any reason at all as to why a wing would take longer than a BCD to teach in and certainly hasn't been bourne out in my experience of teaching both.
(FWIW i always teach in my wing with harness and the students in BCDs have never found it confusing either - its got buttons for air in and out on a hose just like theirs, its got a toggle dump on the back just like theirs etc but thats for a different topic).
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