The right kind of training begins at the beginning.....
It is difficult to justify to those outside aviation the philosophy that we allow green-as-grass newbies to take on the role of Flight Instructor for those taking their first steps in the helicopter world. They - the world at large - think we are nuts ...... and I agree. You are right '49' you can't teach experience but there is some hope that an experienced instructor with a 1000 or (preferably) more hours flying in the real world behind him/her can transfer a modicum of his/her experience by a kind of 'osmosis'.
'Judgement' is like a seedling, it will grow straight and true when given a measure of careful nurturing and the right support. Are we surprised when things don't work out when all we have done is to seek out the cheapest, weakest education?
If the regulators design a system that is bound to fail, is open to abuse and ignores human nature's tendency to cheat then possibly they are guilty of a human factors deficiency? Isn't human factors supposed to be a vital component of a functional aviation community? IMHO the aviation education system is broken - cracked at least - and we need to fix it from the bottom up. Generally speaking the mature military model works better than almost any commercial system I have come across so it can be done.
G.