How is it the blind leading the blind? CFI's have proven they are capable of teaching. Furthermore the pilot mills usually have the least experienced (most blind if you will) instructors. Flying a small airplane, and teaching how to fly a small airplane aren't that difficult. By the time you are an instructor you have worked through all the ratings and have the tools needed. The important thing is learning how to teach it effectively.

The 777 example is good, lets take it a step further. What happens when your FO in an RJ is fresh off IOE and stomps the rudder of that RJ just like he would a 172 and results in a go around? Do you sit there and scream at him because you don't have teaching experience or do you take the time to show him good technique so he doesn't do it again? The exact situation happened to me. Luckily I had a good captain and the result was that my landings improved tremendously over the course of that four day. By the end of that trip I felt that I could handle things much better than I could coming off IOE.

You've got a number of responses here explaining how Jet-U isn't good yet you seem to ignore it and claim it's a good program.

There's no such thing as an easy way. Like it or not you're going to be a teacher at some point in this industry. Would you rather have the tools that instructing gives you to think outside the box and see trends develop before they do or would you rather see the light, push the button and get the banana?