Droopystop, yes Im afraid its true, they meet the required standard on the test day, but you know full well that when the going gets tough theres not a hope in hell that they will cope with the situation. Yes they need more practical experience in the air but the PPL sylabus limits us on how much we have to teach them as part of the course.
IO540, yes Iam a part time PPL instructor, and yes I try various methods of teaching people, but at the end of the day, they only have to reach the required standard on the test day. My point being that the required standard is not high enough.
I have been guilty of teaching much more than is required of me but I make no appology for that.
My experience is that some PPLs I have met havent got the faintest clue about what class A or class D airspace means or what it looks like on a half mil chart, and this IMHO is what is causing these airspace infringements.