it is usually the blind leading the blind when it comes to instructors these days. There are a few older, wiser heads around but not nearly enough of them. It is one of my pet gripes that when those of us that have many years experience, including airline-level check and training, seek to get back into some instructing, we are greeted with a bureaucratic nightmare that not only costs a fortune and takes a long time, but is completely unnecessary
I agree entirely.
But wait there's more, CAA are about to make it compuslory for all flight training to be conducted under a Part 141 certificate, (all in the interest of improving standards you understand). The instructors rating you jumped thru many hoops to get, to allow you to instruct, will be useless unless you have a 141 certificate or work for an organisation that has one. More red tape and expense which will not improve the standard of training.
This is going to drive even more experienced people out of the industry.
What a Crock of S**t.