I've had partially formed sausages come here for help....one had nearly 150 hours and no PPL yet. Huge gaps in knowledge, nothing intrinsically wrong except confidence shot to pieces...( not surprising!)...one who had done effects of controls five times each time with a different instructor....makes me too cross to go on. It gives our industry a bad name. And they bag us smaller, specialised training operators as the "chicken*****tin-pot organisations"
Here company policy is to only employ instructors who are dedicated to teaching, mature and with good people skills. Grade of instructor rating is irrelevant. If a student is being trained by a Grade 3 I do all the solo checks myself. My ops manual doubles as a QA manual. No old cynical instructors here, only one has left since the school started and that was nothing to do with their ability or dedication as an instructor. It takes all sorts I guess!!!
The worry is that if Electronic Dick gets his way, all schools will either be sausage factories or amateurish cowboy organisations!