CFI,
Sounds like you have a great organisation.
I don't think anyone should generalise and describe organisations such as yours as "chicken*****tin-pot organisations". Similarly to generalise and say 'sausage factories .... etc. is just as bad.
My first instructional experience was at a small flying club. The CFI overheard me teaching a new Nav student how to complete a flight plan (circa 1985). Studying wx, calculating HDG, GS, ETI, etc.
The CFI took me aside and told me I was wasting my time as "1 in 60" rule sorted all that out in the air.
Had I not had the sausage factory standard I had, I would have just done as he said.
Generalisations are misleading, don't you agree?
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ChickenTrainer