Is the Airborne School no longer doing the APFT/ACFT, and is only doing the Flexed Arm Hang?

SFC Don Ward - That's true but only for the Army's TRADOC Courses. Even then the military course on its inception submits the standards they expect to meet IOT have students pass, then those are approved by TRADOC. Local unit courses authorized by local Commands such as - Man Tracking, Anti-Tank Weapons employment, Platoon Integrated Fires, Employment of Interlocking Fires, etc, etc are often much more strenuous and mentally stressing than TRADOC's, but are especially necessary for the levels of battalion to fire team effectiveness.

SFC Ralph E Kelley - For a course to be "accredited" under Army Standards, the course submits a POI that includes Army standards for such things as APFT, Grading standard, and any and all standards. TRADOC will either approve, then inspect and approve or not. If not, it will be up to the school to change, not TRADOC. If they are not approved, they won't be funded.

SFC Don Ward - You are correct about POIs, however I believe we are talking apples and oranges. You understand that the Jumpmaster and RSLC courses of the Ranger Training Brigade both started as non-funded courses and it was only after they proved themselves did they become Army Funded Courses.
Like wise the 316th Cavalry Brigade has units that teach R&S and SFA formations that originally were started by POIs but were unfunded by DA. Their funding came from in one case the Armor Branch (but off the cuff from an armored warfare course taught solely by V Corps in West Germany during the Cold War after Vietnam. Another course's funding came only from the Armor School at Fort Knox. The Master Gunner's Program was started in Europe by FORSCOM because after Vietnam the standards of Tankers was in a dismal state. also a legacy of Vietnam.
As I said, apples and oranges. No course that gets started up TODAY without a POI, but it wasn't always that way and if it ever gets to the point that FORSCOM cannot initiate develop and field training for the combat unit at the point of the spear then it will be a dark day. TRADOC is monolithic organization and is not flexible. That's not to denigrate it's contribution to basic and standardize training but to point out the long adaption times of military training organizations.

Also, IIRC, the Commandant responsible of the course can submit a POI change and execute immediately while waiting for it to go through the TRADOC process if the POI change does not require additional resources.