Kiwi Pilots Not So Bad.........
All the Kiwis that I've ever had for low level training, or a BFR, have been as good, or maybe better, than the equivalent hour Oz pilot. Maybe export quality is higher - but I jest!
Tend to agree that skill standards have slipped, but this is an instructor issue, and is being handed down, generation to generation of pilots, via the instructors.
This gets us back into the arguement over whether the whole of our society isn't becoming so over-qualified - that there's nobody left to do the menial and unglamorous jobs which require skills rather than book learning.
Take a look at todays press - industry can't get tradesmen, but they could employ a 100 business degree graduates tomorrow.
For the PPL, I contend that we should be really emphasising skills, rather than slavishly following procedures,
ad nauseum
happy days,