How do AOPA propose to help with "safety" information (I don't get their magazine)?
There are NO safety issues with N. It's now well known that the DfT asked the CAA to come up with data showing that N have more accidents than G but the CAA reported there is no data showing that.
The DfT proposal was written by somebody who knows next to nothing about aeroplanes. There are so many factual errors in it, it's hard to know where to start. Their estimate of the economic cost of everything going back to G is low by (very roughly speaking, obviously, and taking into account all the non-AOC turboprops and non-AOC jets) a factor of about 1000 times.
Quite sad really.