As a long-time instructor who has flown many different types of aircraft, I get a great deal of pleasure teaching in brand new clean aeroplanes but equally enjoy occasionally flying the old ones. This post started on the communication problem, but possibly one explanation could be that the guy who can afford all these gadgets and aspires to own and fly a new aeroplane has earned his money by being successful and not putting up with **** from anyone. Entering the world of GA may be a bit of a time warp to some, but the student might just get better service if he was to recognise that the instructor has had to go through an enormous financial struggle to get to be an instructor and deserves to be treated as a professional, yet the **** pay he is receiving is only allowing him to drive around in an old banger or even to get to work on a rusty pushbike.
There is thus a huge disparity between student and instructor. Often it seems that the student thinks that the instructor is paid well because the lesson is costing over £100 per hour, when the reality is that the instructor who has shelled out £60K to get to being an instructor is lucky to make £8000 per year. And that is working 7 days a week. So that is why the instructor is sometimes late as he has to fit in other bits of life such as domestic errands sometime....