This means that you are out on your own, and unable to benefit from the experience of other seasoned aviators around you.
Believe it or not, there are more clubs than the one you learned at!
I think whats lacking is a bit of lateral thinking. So your club doesn't want to know, go somewhere else, go on a flying holiday, fly with some mates.
You read Wanabees and I'm amazed at how many people are willing to chuck £60,000 into the pot to become a "professional pilot" without even exploring the alternatives, or even doing a bit of Private flying first to see if they really want to be a pilot, or becasue it just sounds good at the time? Maybe its always been like this, its just we get to see it now with the advent of cyberspace.
Old pilots are not nescessarily better than new pilots, its always the same "when I was a lad we used to blah blah blah"....GA is changing, for the better, with the advent of modern technology, and no doubt many of the old timers wont be able to keep up.
I would agree that O-levels and A levels have got easier. My Mrs is a teacher now, teaching A level physics,amongst other things (the same course I did about 19 years ago, at the same place...scary). Some (most) of the students are thick as pig !!!! and can't even write or spell clearly. Ask them how to scale a graph properly and they reach mental breakdown.....poor wee darlings
See now you've got me started, when I was a lad........
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Oh you tosser....I just noticed the date of the post. It is a wind up isn't it? Sorry, bit slow off the mark
