Which just goes back to my earlier point about the quality of the average PPL. It was not me that attacked AlanM it was rather a blanket statement that was made about PPL's being crap and being told to steer away from CAS because we are not wanted. The strange thing is on the whole I can agree with his reasons just not the way he presented it!
The standard of PPL training these days is shocking as a whole. Why? because we allow inexeperianced hours builders to become FI's who know nothing about flying and are only interested in a jet job (and will sit there and tell you all day how long how they are going to fly an airbus). These wet behind the ears instructors have no experiance to pass on, in fact most of them have probably only been near controlled airpspace during there own training yet they are quite happy to try and convince the mere mortals that they know everything.
The correct use of GPS and Nav aids is not taught as the instructors generally don't have access to them theirselves (to broke from getting up to their eyeballs in debt from training) and the spamcan fleet is full of old crap that does not work. (Q PeterH here for support.......
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TC-LTN, yes I am probably further up the food chain know I took the effort to do a CPL/IR, but that has been through determination to improve my flying and learn about everything in aviation possible with the aim of being a safer pilot not an airline pilot. I did this so I did not become one of the infringers and to ensure that my flying and RT were first class 100% of the time. I get refused very few transits.....
So far I have amassed a few hours without a single infingement (even my one skirmish with your own controller that turned out to be controller error as you recall). Would you really take that effort away from me?