Its a very good point that rings true all too often.
How many newbies know what a HF is? Let alone how to use one? How many newbies get sent North on the trek for a job without a DG certificate? Granted these are very basic points but shouldn't flying schools prepare CPL candidates for GA charter work if its not a cadetship?
I look back at my training and I was very happy with the standard I recieved, most of it with GRII and GRI instructors. I worked in the hangar (or should I say I got in the way in the hangar) which taught me a thing or 2.
How many 250 pilots would be confident say doing a Darwin - Hodgson Downs charter without their handheld GPS? My sadistic side but I love taken em of em....
No one is perfect (well then again theres me...) you are not expected to know everything just to have a basic knowledge and brains. Blowing a hangar out is a common sense thing nothing to do with flying.