A civil service source said bluntly that he remained “obsessed” with general aviation. The obsession began in 1995 when Shapps, then a photocopier salesman in his early twenties, obtained his pilot licence. He married, bought a printing business, and endured cancer, but remained a devotee of the world of general aviation or “GA”, the recreational use of aircraft.
I thought the article rather biased until I reached this par, when I became rather cross. The writer (shan't call him a journalist) states that GA is for rich playboys buzzing around in aeroplanes. He does not refer to flight training, business aviation, air taxis, air ambulances, human organ transfers, and the many jobs in other activity such as maintenance and training of aero engineers. The Sunday Times has taken another dive in my estimation.