Mike, ok, I guess you have a point with some clubs, but the CRI can do transition training outside of schools and clubs. Like I mentioned before, in Germany it is legal for instructors to be paid without a CPL, except in regards to the tax declaration perhaps.
But this would cover stiknruda's problem! He wants to teach people to fly a cub, a taildragger... with a CRI he could... legally!
One weird thing.... a FI without a CPL (still some around from the old pre-JAR-FCL days) can fly around with a beginning student (with or without pay) at a commercial school, yet this same person cannot do sightseeing flights for the same commercial operation!
Most of the regulation are supposed to be "harmonised" within the JAA community, but I don't see much harmonization at all!
Westy