I stand by my statements. I'm not saying that all trainers are wank*rs. In fact, most are not. But there are a few that are so stereotypical of the British boarding school, long-sleeved, cufflinked, "fast jet" (what's a slow jet?) mentality that they overshadow the good ones.
I still find it hard to believe, raven, that you think someone who has a P1 rating, who has the same checkrides and makes the same decisions (how many times do you see a decision made at Cathay without the captain asking "Everybody happy with that?") as the captain has to go through a "proper upgrade."
An upgrade at Cathay can never be called "training." It is pure "checking."