manfromuncle,
Would just like to say I agree with what you said and had the same ethos when I was instructing, I was always amazed how keen some people were to chuck the things at the ground. I would struggle to come up with more than a few cases of 22's having had an engine failure but can think of plenty of instances where machines were dinged practicing eol's. I also flew with plenty of people who didn't know how to re-act properly to something common like the clutch light staying on but thought they could do eol's well,when it turned out that the instructor had done most of the work and they just assumed they were s**t hot because so an so had done them all the time!