Where else can you fly aircraft for the costs we have made possible? £17.00 per hour wet is typical of PFA types
Hmm, tricky, the BMAA and BGA perhaps? Oh yes, and maybe the BBAC. Probably the BHPA is rather cheaper now you mention it.
Which makes VH959's point rather well I think. Co-operation within, and between the five big sport flying associations is what we all need.
We're all on the same side boys and girls - even George Adams (who I know and also think is an excellent and competent chap - although thankfully I've never been involved in this sad and messy debacle over his qualifications and the infamous prosecution).
Did George Adams deliberately set out to enganger life - of course he didn't. Does Graham Newby deliberately set out to seriously offend much of the microlight establishment with his takeover bids on type-approved microlights - of course not. Did the PFA's EC members think that they were doing the best thing for the PFA by censoring critical debate - almsot certainly they did. Did any of them realise that their "opponents" also feel that they had the best interests of sport aviation at heart, probably not, and that's the problem.
You've all seen Top Gun, there's a little pep talk by one of the instructors at the start of the course "always remember guys, whatever's happened, at the end of the day we're all on the same side". There is an enemy out there - it's the weather, NIMBYs blocking our airfields, a few genuinely deranged individuals true. But everybody discussed in this thread, including those being criticised, were on our side and should be treated as such.
Sermon over.
G