BEagle - Thanks for a perceptive post. You are right and yet you have touched on the absolute essence of my argument. The NPPL is a NATIONAL licence and NOT subject to JAR-FCL or ICAO Annex 1 requirements. Therefore it can be tailored as can those who instruct to the NPPL(SEP) syllabus, both flight and, somewhat revised, ground. Now you have it. Yes, those who turn to the back of Flight first, and I was one in the very distant past, have yet to be really heard on this forum but if they hide like ostriches then it WILL occur. Why should students HAVE to subsidise the mediocre remuneration levels of impoverised FI? There is another way. Let JAR-FCL students continue as at present paying through the nose and going abroad in increasing numbers. BUT let the NPPL guys benefit from a TOTALLY different cost structure with, in my opinion based on long experience, better motivated instructors. If that does not cause an explosive reaction, nothing will.
Look forward to an absolute avalanche of responses but not holding my breath...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Trapper 69
