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Interesting discussion...
I don't believe you can blame insturctors for poor decision making. You can teach a monkey to fly (reaching the rudder pedals might be a problem though) but you can't teach a monkey to make the right go/no go choice.
Each and every pilot, student to ATP is responsible for making the proper safety decisions. Making sure they have all the available information and honestly and prudently judging conditions to skills before even going to the airport.
I have driven and not flown when I considered conditions beyond my capabilities, I stayed an extra day and even grounded my airplane when the mag check differential was bit out of tolerances.
With that said, it is the instructer's responsibility to be the decsion making "training wheels" until the student has enough expierence to evaluate available information and make the right choice. When is that time, I don't know.
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