The ones that insist you can fly everywhere VFR are the old farts mostly retired with nothing to do but sit around the flying club all day impressing others with there 500 years of flying experiance and going flying only when it s VFR!
IO540 is also right about the attitude of people taking the ATPL exams. Often what were perfectly reasonable people suddenly start looking down there nose at "plain" PPL just because they have sat through 14 exams. Yet they are still the same people who have less total flying hours than some of us have taxiing to the holds.
I wonder who really has more experiance the 200hr fATPL holder or the 800hr IMCR pilot?
I applaud anyone who is daft enough to go and do an ATPL in this day and age of no work (look at the latest articles in flyer etc.) but being fresh off the exams does not give anyone the right to look down there nose at "plain" PPL's. I know some of the wannabees find it hard to believe but not every one wants to fly an autopilot on a bus, there are people out there who actually want to fly for the enjoyment of it and are prepared to put in the time and effort to become competant at all aspects of there flying.
Doing 14 exams and a CPL/IR which then lapses due to lack of work and experiance makes no one a "big boy".
Last edited by S-Works; 30th July 2004 at 08:53.