IO540,
If every person in the CAA had a PPL/IR and owned and flew modern piston or turboprop aeroplanes, VFR and IFR and airways, all over Europe, we would have a fantastically good and effective regulator which would push and modernise GA all over
You are probably correct... but then the band of modern GA enthusiasts we had in our hypothetical CAA would no doubt try to ban anything as "under-equipped" as a Cub, Tiger Moth or Chipmunk. In fact, now I think about it, the whole tail-dragger thing is very unsafe....
What we
really want is a good cross-section of GA represented in the CAA: some people who tour, as you suggest, others who fly classic aircraft from strips, ex-instructors, previous aerobatic champions, air-taxi pilots, and so on. To take the bunch of single-minded old farts that we currently have and replace them with a different bunch of single-minded old farts with a slightly different agenda won't really help anyone who has a different agenda to the new bunch of old farts. (Not that I'm suggesting you are an old fart, of course!)
FFF
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