Hi eyeinthesky:
First you will notice my three frowning faces were about pilots landing on the nose wheel, a clear indication of poor training. This phenomena is quite common everywhere, all one needs do is watch light aircraft land.
As to my being very angry about the poor quality of pilots being produced by flying schools, well I am not really angry, rather I would say I am disapointed.
The plus side of this for me is I have a never ending supply of students that require retraining.
As to the use of rudder or rather the lack of use and understanding of rudder, that is as you point out partly due to the design of training aircraft. However you will note there is a rudder on them therefore it is incumbent on flight instructors to teach students the use of the rudder.
Maybe the first few hours of training should be in a tailwheel airplane?
If, of course you can find enough instructors that can fly a tailwheel airplane.
You missunderstand why I am as you state angry, and it is really difficult to explain on a computer keyboard. So I guess I will just once again say flying training in my obversation is becoming dummed down.
And once more, nothing personal, just my obversations.
Cat Driver