I read this thread with interest. Chuck...your last comment..you owned a flight school and then sacked the people you hired??? Hmmm coz they didn't do it your way. Did you not interview them in the first place and establish their practises??
Conflict Alert, I see you have problems with comprehension.
So let me spell it out so you can understand.
They were my employees and I owned the airplane, I felt that I had the right to protect my investment from instructors who seemed to be more like religious fundamentalists than flight instructors, unable to accept anything other than what they were taught and believed in.
They were not terminated, I gave then a notice of dismissal if they were not prepared to operate my airplane as I wished.
It is my opinion that putting the props in high RPM doing holds at a beacon is just plain stupid and I do not keep stupid pilots on my pay roll.