Arrestahook
250 hours per year is purely a demonstartion of how much money you can afford to throw at your private flying. Others do less but at least they are doing it and keeping our sport/hobby going
You suggest somebody was fishing for a compliment but you sound like you are looking for a fight allright
What you wrote is, with respect, nonsense.
If somebody can fly 250hrs/yr (I do about half that) all well and good - they will build up excellent currency, presumably on type (since somebody doing 250 is hardly self fly hiring a selection of old spamcans). GA needs more people like that; the whole scene needs the incentive to lift its standards up.
Presently the whole scene is based on nearly every PPL chucking it in in no time at all, so there is no pressure for things to improve.
Yes "we" do have the right to be able to fly just 12hrs every 2 years but then we expect schools to be well organised, operating decent planes, employing decent instructors, and have decent planes available for self fly hire... hardly realistic. If only every new PPL (or even a significant % of them) got out there and did some serious flying.... Presently, with a few pilots hanging in there doing a few hours a year, it is like standing on the Titanic.