To be honest chaps, all this NPPL business is starting to bother me a bit !
As far as I am concerned, I don't think anyone should be allowed to instruct unless they hold a PROFESSIONAL PILOTS LICENSE.
As an PPL Instructor/Examiner, I get to fly with a lot of people with very different personalities and abilities. The thought of some of the PPL`s I fly with actually teaching others to fly concerns me greatly - It will be like the blind leading the blind (or at best, the partially sighted leading the blind), in short, it would be a recipe for disaster as standards would drop greatly!
If somebody wants to be a career instructor (as I am considering at the moment) they should be required to hold at least a JAA CPL.
I agree totally with the basic priciple of introducing a NATIONAL PPL, but I think some of the proposals (like allowing PPL's to instruct and flying school's to operate at UNLICENSED AIRFIELDS) are just thoughtless and stupid.
I worked hard to get where I am in my career today, and I think the idea of letting people "bypass the system" is immoral as well as dangerous!