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Old 1st April 2004 | 15:11
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FlyingForFun

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I have never seen one school that cares at all about what happens to a PPL once he/she has got their PPL. Flight planning facilities aren't provided, for example
Hearing that makes me, once again, very glad that I trained, and continue to fly, at the airfield that I did. Full flight planning facilities available to all pilots. An hour's free instruction each year (that's every year, not every two years as per the minimum requirements) for every club member. Several aircraft on the fleet which are actually suitable for real-life IMC flying. Regular seminars (which unfortunately always seem to be a Wednesday night, when I have a regular engagement, so I haven't been to any of them) on things like how to use your GPS.....

As for people not having the ability to handle an aircraft, do you (and by "you" I'm refering to anyone who's more experienced than me, which means most of the posters on this forum!) really expect us to believe that the day you passed your PPL you were just as competent a pilot as you are now? I know I'm a far more competent pilot now than I was the day I passed my PPL. I also know I'm a far less competent pilot than I'd like to be, and that the only way I will ever get close to the same level of competence as those who have logged thousands of hours is to log thousands of hours myself (and make those hours useful, as well).

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