Excellent suggestions John - glad you aren't listenting to HeliC's dystopian, defeatist posts.
Things can change and must, it is just a case of focussing the CAA's 'eye of Sauron' on the issue and getting them to be pro-active.
So a private helicopter flopped into the ground, no-one was seriously injured, and as a consequence of that you demand that all young instructors be sacked and only old farts like you, preferably with a military background, be allowed to instruct. How amazingly knee-jerk and arrogant.