TurboJ,
Which course are your "students" doing with you when you are "instructing" them in the route to follow for their 300nm cross-country?
I would not say your ops manual is rubbish (certainly not without having seen it, in any case!) If the school has a number of routes which they recommend to their prospective CPL students or ex PPL students, that's absolutely fine. But since the pilot will not actually be a student on any recognised course with your school at the time they do this route (unless it is an integrated course, which I omitted from my original reply as I infered that DW is not on an integrated course), I don't see how they are obliged to follow your recommendations, nor how you are obliged to recommend anything. Any recommendations your school chooses to make are a bonus, so long as they do not detract from the development of the pilot's decision-making abilities.
FFF
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