It's too cold to work on the aircraft at 8.38 am, its zero outside. Besides, my wife tells me that I have chores to do. I would dearly like to be flying but the nearest airport with a school is an hour and a half drive both ways. Of course, barring a bank sized stuff up, RAA and SAAA will be around. My concern is what they might morph into if CASA has its way.
I have already had a taste of that via the yachting clubs and associations, the restrictions and administrative hoops to keep a yacht grow every year now. insurance, safety certificates and audits, classification of vessels, prescribed annual drills, courses and accreditations, minimum crew composition, etc., etc. - all in the name of "safety" of course.