Non-instructor Trial flights
My school has recently started to routinely use the desk staff to perform Trial flights. These people are good pilots, but are basic PPL's and have no form of commercial licence or instructors rating.
The school says that they are just keeping people flying when the instructors are busy. But they are telling instructors who are paid by the day and hour not to come in to work and letting the salaried desk staff perform the flying instead.
Is this normal practice with flying schools and is it legal ?
Having just spent £5k on an instructors rating I hope this isn't the norm !