Crossbow, I appreciate you are only on Proone to cause fights, but didn't you read the post above yours?
And I guess 'why in the UK' because it's far more expensive to do it abroad.
The lack of free airspace in the UK is getting worse as the urban sprawl takes over the countryside, but as long as aircraft need to fly at low level operationally, we will have to balance the needs of training against the effects of doing it at home, and the costs of doing it abroad.