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Flight training works best if it is structured in a coherent and consistent way.
Indeed it does and PPL training in Europe has always had more structure that it has on your side of the Atlantic. That is not the issue, we have about 5 different books containing a structured syllabus, but under European rules, the training provider, an ATO, has to provide a series of documents, micromanaged to the point that permission to go to the toilet would take at least 2 years, which can be made to work for a short course, but does not take into account the transient nature of PPL training. The French FFA (equiv to AOPA) aware of this issue demanded a simpler approach eliminating much of the bureauracy and allowing PPL training to be conducted using one of the agreed syllabi. This is refered to as a DTO. Note, you don't need any sort of organisation in your part of the World where an instructor is trusted to do what he is qualified to do. If the EU had existed in 1492 you would not have been discovered and would still be one of us!