crossing the channel
It would seem it ture pprune style a few did not read my post in full, the "crossing the channel" was just an example. So for those of you who don't read more than one, the punch line is below.
Most of them can teach people to fly an aircraft but have no idea how to use an aircraft for traveling.
As an instructor you are trainning a person who could launch off across the globe the day after the PPL is issued, so as one who instructs in the southern UK it is likely that the first thing my ex-students will do is fly into europe.
How then could I teach my students properly for the flying that they are most likely to do if I had not done it myself?
Going back to the thread may be one of things ten things that I hate in aviation is people who dont read posts on pprune past line one!