Poor pay and substandard teaching go hand in hand.
Canada also suffers from substandard instructors, it has been like this for decades.
What I believe would make the standards of flight instruction better is kick out all the drones in the regulator that collect indirect welfare from the taxpayers and replace them with people that truly care about the industry.
We could start with two classes of instructor.
Professional high time instructors who want to teach, to attract them the pay must be on a par with an airline captain.
Apprentice instructors, mentored and overseen by the professional so as to build up their teaching skills in a structured manner. These apprentices would of course receive a wage that would allow them to stay in the industry.
Paying high wages to top notch teachers would not really be all that more expensive to the students because not only would they be better trained they would do it in far less flying time.
As a plus maybe one could go to an airport some day and not have to watch these schools land little trainers on their nose wheels.
