I’m of the firm belief that it’s too easy to get a plane ticket at the lower end of the spectrum and too easy to keep it! The amount of Pvt pilots I’ve gone along with for ride that are very slack in all aspects of their flying is astonishing! I partly blame the testing officers for this,they let too many slip thru the cracks of their AFR’s and it shows!
Pilots should be striving to improve, doing it better rather than finding short cuts and the cheapest quickest way around an AFR!