In my opinion the point of a check out is to:
- Confirm legality - Pilot Paperwork in order
- Confirm competent/safe to fly
- Confirm navigation acceptable - Pilot won't get lost
- Point out any local "Gotchas" - ie Controlled/Restricted Airspace
- Point out any obvious local features/landmarks to help with orientation
- Confirm pilot understands, and knows how to comply with, any
local procedures.
How much actual flying the above involves depends on the experience
and currency of the piolt being checked, and also on what they would like
to do.
In this case it appears that the Instructor demonstrated (with no
explanations or caveats) that it is perfectly OK to ignore the
published local procedures if one wishes.
I think this is very poor Instruction/Airmanship/Checking Out