How about toughening up the biennial review, to check competence in preflight planning
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Very good idea.
At the moment it is not a review it is a flight of 1 hour with an Instructor the content of which is the pilot not the Instructors decision. I have just had a couple go elsewhere for their 2 year flight as I would not just fly around for an hour and sign them off. Apparently they did not like have to do a few PFL's steep turns etc.
They have gone to another Instructor who will just sit there for the hour and sign the log book.
It is this type of attitude that is the reason we have so many problems. A proper FAA type BFR would probably help improve things.