If it is a "club" and not a school, they should act like a "club".
A decent club would arrange a fly out to someplace like Le Touquet and place experienced members with new members who have never crossed the channel. One member fly’s there, one fly’s back. The new member gets the experience while the other pilot gets to share costs. This promotes both a cost reduction, a chance to meet and fly with new people, utilisation of aircraft and most importantly FUN!!! (It would also do away with this daft "Can I log the hours for a none existent flight check" thread). Isn’t that the whole point of a club?
I have seen it done like this but sadly it seems not to be the norm in the UK....and people wonder why GA is dying over here.
