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There is a clear consensus on this thread, that if lost, a PPL should contact D&D, inform them clearly of the situation and do not abuse the training fix to do that.
A minority of posters, including an airline pilot who appears to be better at telling than listening and an over representation from the FI community appear to have a problem with pilots following the guidelines set by D&D and CAP413 for the use of the training fix scheme.
If the airline pilot stopped to consider that life is not fair, he might be a little less uptight. For example, his employers do not pay VAT on fuel and private pilots do, but we don't whinge about how unfair that is and make a safety case that "because avgas is so expensive, we don't carry suitable reserves and its Gordon Brown's fault if we crash through fuel starvation." That level of thinking should have been dealt with by the fifth form debating society.
As for the FIs, you really appear to have jumped on a bandwagon, assuming (on data that is not declared) that there are many PPLs out there who lie frequently.
Until you have solid data to justify that line of thinking, I regard it as unsound and a matter of regret from people who should be paragons of judgement, in aviation matters at least.
Last edited by Final 3 Greens; 11th September 2005 at 05:51.