How many instructors actually trained to provide meaningful training?
All FIs are trained, and tested in their ability to provide meaningful training; the standard of training today is very much higher than it was 30 years ago. A newly trained instructor often gives a better performance than one who has had 10,000 hours of practice.
Most are just hour builders! Therefore the system is flawed!
What exactly are they building hours for? Most already have a commercial licence with an IR so they really have nothing left to build! The 700 hour, hour building route, evaporated 16 years ago!
The CAA is charged with ensuring that aviation is safe for the general public, those who join flying clubs are assumed to be capable of assessing risks for themselves, but those who have nothing to do with aviation are entitled to a level of protection commensurate with those who travel by bus, taxi or on a ferry. The CAA, in its current state of blissful ignorance and incompetent management, has totally failed to act in the interest of paying passengers, because it wants to be seen as a Good Egg in promoting the GA Challenge. Only time will tell if the insurers don't get there first!