I think the training for PPLs and all this licenced airfied stuff
if OK to a point.
However, once getting the PPL one can start to operate from short fields with obstacles and fields where nobody is around..
Some PPLs go from this highly protected environment to no protection in a single day..!
Fire trucks and all that stuff are used to justify the add-on costs that come with the 'licenced' airfied tag - they are there for a feelgood factor - very very very rarely used.
Of course the types of flying the types of aircraft and the no of movements a day will determine the levels of risk involved. At Duxford we have old types, aerobatics, periodic high movements-
all that would suggest a need for fire cover but at Sleepy Hollow flying school with a solitary C150 its seemes an overkill
Why not place a fire truck every two miles on the M11? - Its the same thing - now they WOULD be used...
