The NPPLSC members are NOT the 'usual bunch of commitee goers'
NPPLSC consists of:
AOPA
BGA
BMAA
GAMTA
GAPAN
PFA
Why do the words 'non' and 'sequiter' spring to mind?
The first draft of JAR-FCL1 (all those years ago) made no mention of PPL training, it concentrated entirely on professional training and was intended to be the training companion to JAR-OPS 1. AOPA then muscled in on the act and, without consultation or consideration, demanded that private flying be included. I know....I was there.
Now, the same incompetent bunch, having finally woken up to the consequences of their ill-considered demands, are desperate to disengage private flying from the JAA. The latest demand is that all reference to General Aviation be removed from JAR-FCL.
A and C wrote:
"You have to ask your self this ,what would the JAA have done if AOPA had not been fighting the GA corner ?"
The answer, of course, is that the JAA would have ignored private aviation, as it always intended to, all of the member states would have continued to issue PPLs to the same rules that they had always done and would have continued to recognise each others licences as they had always done. In short - we would have retained the old, tried and tested, system that everyone is now trying to get back to.
If only AOPA had not stuck their noses in.....