What I find really strange is that the selection process is very arbitrary - very experienced instructors and examiners are being excluded but under-experienced LAA pilots are accepted.
Secondly how is it that LAA coaches with lower qualifications than CAA instructors with Class 1 medicals and associated costs can sign off the SEP rating when said instructors cannot.
Seems to me that the LAA is a closed shop where those that fit in get the benefits and those that don't don't.