My dear friends, there is one point i want to make absolutely clear: It is NOT a problem of the trainees, but one of ourselves. I have many colleagues between 40 and 55 years old, who have a very poor knowledge of aviation. I asked several of them about the reason, and a very common answer is: "I am just not interested. I did not need to know about these things for the last twenty years, so what do you want?"
As long as our trainees have such perfect "idols" there is no reason for us to wonder why they don't know enough. Let us be better controllers with more knowledge, then we might be able to pass more of it to the next generation. I am aware that maybe the readers in that forum are not the right ones to be addressed.