Unfortunately, soviet bloc, is 100% right in what he says. The gentleman in question was no doubt OAT's best instructor and the only one that genuinely cared for his students, was always approachable and ready to help and my exam passes in his subjects are 100% down to him.
Sadly, he was not an OAT man, and didn't fly the OAT flag because all he cared about was getting his students to pass the exams and continuously got into trouble with management over this. Typical of OAT really to keep getting the best instructors into trouble. As I understand it, the reasons for his dismissal were largely a setup by some of the management.
What a shame to see the best man they had go like this. OAT have shot themselves in the foot big time here, and as has already been said, unfortunately the only losers here are the students. This FTO prides itself as being the world's best, but quite frankly, their treatment of customers and staff is disgusting to say the very least.
On a brighter note, I have been informed that the gentleman in question has been offered an instructors' job with a well known FTO on the Dorset coast, so I'd like to wish him all the best with his job there.