Beagle thanks for a balanced and well informed post that shows that the NPPL is an industry wide idea.
As for the anti AOPA posts i feel that the JAA-PPL probably looked like a good idea at the time but once all the nations have stuck there bit in it turns into buracratic mire.
You have to ask your self this ,what would the JAA have done if AOPA had not been fighting the GA corner ?
The reason that GA in the UK gets pushed around is that most of the UK,s pilots are to tight to pay the subscription to the reprisentative bodys such as AOPA or the PFA ,and spend to much time just slagging them off in forums like this when the time would be much beter spent writing emails to your MP in support of GA.
End of rant!.