An extra £5 an hour would only add around £250 to the cost of a PPL. Considering the majority of PPLS are completed by people looking at flying more as a hobby, and as such if they are looking at doing a PPL in the UK at a cost of about £5000 a 5% rise for an FI who is happy, and has your interests at heart as opposed to pleasing their bank managers is well worth it.
Interesting about the Avgas and Jet A1, this b%$"£$d government are obviously not content with just abolishing NVQ relief for flying AS "we do not wish to subsidise people enjoying themselves flying" or whatever it was they said. Personally I think we should contact the unions and get this business sorted out once and for all, Get NVQ back and not the at the old level, but more like 50%, toughen up on companies recruiting pilots from abroad (espicially none JAA licence states) when we have loads of pilots here! Also we should kick the bloody frogs into touch for signing up to JAR and then blatently going against all that it stands for - but that is another issue...
Good on the FI's, lets make this bloody awful government work for us proffesional aviators for a change!!!
BigAir