If it has not already happened, then it will be a sad day when individuals are ordered to attend the CFS Course. An instructor should be a volunteer and want to teach. The CFS Course rightly has international kudos and is far from an attendance tick in the box. Front line Sqns are strapped and can barely cope with the absent pilot/crewman attending a CFS Course.
However once the training system is diluted by bodged ideas and protocol, we really have reached the end of the line, and accidents will happen with individuals repeating flying procedures and techniques badly taught and based upon individual perception rather then syllabus based procedures. It is bad enough when a maverick QFI/QHI/QHCI is allowed by position of responsibility/authority to "Do it his way".
To get back to the point of the thread, the training system as we know it is dependent upon instructors who have the capacity to give a little bit extra. Who can diagnose the problems associated with an under achieving student and address them for the good of both the system and the student. Who can change procedures if the system is at fault whilst equally chopping a student who is a lost cause for whatever reason. That way the 'right stuff' get to do the job where it matters, and all human potential is realized.
I have seen at first hand the frustration of an individual who is A2 in all but log book/F5000 entry refuse to upgrade because of career management issues, who funny old thing, then got stabbed in the back by PMA and never will see his true potential realized. An 'incentive' of whatever means is needed to 'encourage' good B1 instructors to go the extra mile. A2 takes time & motivation and is bloody hard work, and at the present time is not rewarded at all beyond opening a few posting options.
Aircrew should under no circumstance be penalized for self improvement, and that it the ethos present at this time in the RAF Rotary world. It is time to turn the tide and reward effort with 'something' worth striving for: Whilst I would not agree that we are all lazy (previous poster), that perception is there if you choose to see it.