Problem with the RAF approach is it's too expensive to transpose it to civil aviation.
One needs to differentiate between how you teach and what you teach. The civil pilot requires a more restricted course than the military aviator because his needs are less to achieve qualification. The standards required to meet either pilots duties within their own fields however, should be the same. The quality of teaching should therefore be the same with the civil pilots course being cheaper since it is shorter.
There seems to be a suggestion that the civil pilot is less well trained because of the differences in training methods. There are undoubtedly many excellent all though civil pilots, equally there are some ex military in civil aviation who are less than perfect, I know, I chopped some of them.