The National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) welcomed a new instructor last month to teach advanced classes in heating, ventilating and air conditioning repair.
Brian Snodderly will spend three weeks teaching at NRVTA before returning to his home in Kearney, Mo., for four weeks and repeating the cycle.
For more than 25 years, he has been the owner of Amazing Comfort, a heating, ventilating and air conditioning service center in Kearney, where his staff installs and repairs residential or commercial systems.
He completed RV training in 2014 with the Mobile RV Academy, the predecessor to NRVTA. He also took courses at Hillyard Technical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., and at training centers in Platte City, Mo.
At NRVTA, his courses will include a 40-60 mix of classroom instruction and hands-on labs where students apply course material to products found in recreation vehicles. Snodderly averages 12 students per class, but can accommodate as many as 22 people seeking training to become technicians at RV dealerships or starting RV mobile service businesses.
“We have enough equipment at NRVTA that students do not have to gather around a single unit to learn how it works,” he explained. “Rather, each student can work on his or her own heater or air conditioner to understand the inner workings of the different brands.”