I think the arguements here are a little off target. I'm one of the ones that had to go well over the top to become a career instructor and naturally would feel agrieved if those that follow could do the same job far quicker, far cheaper, for the same reward.
That said, the arguement is not with those individuals but with the regulators and their final salary pensions that make rules only to be undone when they don't suit. Someone, somewhere laid down that PPL FI's were not the they way to go so changed it all. Now apparently all that was wrong. Who made the decision, why, where are they now and if still inpost should be fired for getting it so wrong. I would so love a job with so much influence yet so little responsibility for the outcome of that influence.
-VERoC