Rather than have people required to hold the licence they teach for or above, they should be required to demonstrate experience in the field they will teach.
Thus people teaching at PPL level would have to demonstrate x number of hours including x hours crosscountry (to different fields), to teach the IMC, the person would have to show that they have held an IMC rating and have x hours as an IMC holder or have extra training required and so on.
Then we would not have the case of the integrated "graduate" teaching PPL flying, night and IMC while having absolutely no experience of anything they are teaching towards.
A perfect example I came across recently was a "graduate" who held an IR and was teaching the IMC rating to a student but had never done any IFR IMC flying outside of the airway system and did not know that for example IMC pilots generally plan their flights using the 1:500,000 chart and not an Aerad Chart.
The same instructor teaches PPL level including night but has only done one half decent crosscountry flight (CPL qualifier) outside the training system.
I am sure that they will make an excellent co-pilot and will gain experience under the watchfull eye of the Captain......but are they really equipped to teach subjects they know little about...i.e. operating as a PPL?
Why is it assumed that a CPL knows how to operate as a PPL?
Regards,
DFC