Well from a students point of view I wish my club was more organised about it.

First - everyone new has to have a "free checkout" type flight by the head instructor - which sounds like a great idea if you can find him. He only flies on Saturday and he's prone to miss 4 weeks in a row at times.

After that it's a free for all. There's no designated times/days of training and no designated list of instructors. Basically students bring a plane out and hope it's an OK one and try to flag down someone to give them some time on a buddy box. I've seen a few people show up and have someone volunteer to fly them on a buddy box that I just saw fly by themselves and let's say I wouldn't let them fly my plane - IE there's no minimum requirement for them to train someone else.

Luckily I met a guy who can meet me during the week during lull times and less distractions. Hopefully I can stick with him my whole instruction cycle. I don't like the idea of having XX instructor for a few flights and then YY instructor for a few more.

I've brought it up before and I get yelled at here by students and instructors but I wouldn't mind a pay system. Nothing wrong with free instruction and I would want that to be still available. But when I have the time off during the week I wouldn't mind paying for more intensive instruction since I would be eating up an instructors own flying time.

I never bring my plane out on the weekends because "if" I can find an instructor on the weekend as soon as you get in the air 2-3 more people will start hovering over the runway etc.. or doing aerobatic flight on both ends of the pattern and it's very distrcating while trying to just learn to do a figure 8.