Tecpilot, very true. No sensible person would advocate sending an inexperienced person into a dodgy situation such as night VFR (Man, I hate that. I cannot believe it's legal.) if they haven't at least experienced it before or have a safety pilot with them.
My issue is that PPF#1 is slagging off John Eacott for having a very sensible scheme that allows people to build up their experience under supervision. I wish more companies did that. I know I would have/still would have benefitted from that.