I have to agree with Torque Tonight above, but I think there is a deeper question which needs to be asked: how can one graduate from the PPL sausage machine in the first place having received such apparently poor training, and then how does one get through the 2-yearly checks? The answer to the latter is easy enough (they are meaningless). The answer to the former is not so easy.
Yesterday I went for a local flight to check out some newly installed avionics, Upon returning, found some poor chap in the circuit who, according to ATC was flying at an estimated 400ft, and had to be told which way to turn in order to land. He sounded OK on the radio...
IMHO one learns little having a go at the pilots in these cases. It has to go further back.