Slim,
I could, of course, not agree more with you.
The entire training culture in the UK is very much skewed towards churning out PPLs who are excellent in circuit bashing.
Some form of mentoring of newly qualified PPLs by folks be it instructors with the necessary experience or PPLs would is great but there is little opportunity to do so as schools (most clubs are schools really) do not cater for this for a number of reasons.
BBs like Proon and Flyer are excellent in that they are a good forum to ask questions and Fly Outs get regularly organised by folks on these shores.
FD