The discussion with BEagle about PPL's checking each other for non manditory (under ANO regs) club checks which are imposed by the CFI as a condition of renting an aircraft from its owner. Conducted without payment (apart from solo hire), by 2 people. Which can be waivered by the CFI if he chooses ( I didn't have a check ride after not flying a SEP for 100days but when I went up I was solo so it was legal and I was insured) is diluting the main issue here.
The taking of Ex 3's by PPL's is not under discussion. It is definatly illegal and has the potential to ruin alot of lives and may be also have some pretty horrible effects for the industry as a whole.
CHIRP it or whatever. Just get it stopped. I know it is hard at this stage in your career but unfortunatly its one of these things that needs something done.
Just remember in a few months time you may meet someones mother walking down the road with a bunch of flowers, she bought her kid a trial flight for his 16th birthday. Kid never made 17...... True he is more likely to be run over but you can't do anything to stop that. You can stop an unqualified pilot commit fraud by gaining the trust of a member of the public by prentending to be a commercial pilot who is qualified as an instrucor.
MJ
And BEagle no i didn't get any training or any ground school in what the required standards are. And after discussing it at work today with others that hold or have held an instructors rating they wern't either. In fact none of us had even been sat down by the CFI during the restricted period.