The real enemy !
You are all directing your wrath in the wrong direction the real enemy of the instructor is the likes of the big flying schools.
It is they that have convinced the airlines that the only way to recrute new pilots is via the integrated course , this is compleat rubbish but it gets the money into the schools pockets.
It is high time that the airline industry awoke to the fact that the last thing a company wants or needs is a bunch of Oxford or Cabair clones with little or no experiance of aviation outside the learning system, it's bad for the atmosphere inside a company it's bad for flight safety and in the end it will be bad for the business as a whole.
I am starting to become very disenchanted with the things that I see it airline recrutment at the moment and think that I will have to play my part in changing it from the inside.
As for the young man who sees no point in instructing , he has his finger on the pulse of the airline industry........... but I do hope that I don't have to sit next to him on a night Tenarife I would probably want to kill myself (or him) after that !.