Intro Flights
Well, I know business can be tough these days but what happened to me today is just the lowest category of foul play.
Anybody in the world who runs a flight school (helicopter and/or fixed wing) is doing it, clients ask for it and so far it was tolerated by the authorities: intro lessons (without medical or any other kind of prerequisites).
Now, a local commercial operator, the only one around without FTO and/or RF, reported me and some other flight schools as well, to the aviation authority for conducting illegal intro flights.
I know that the authority is not really interested in taking action (some of them work as flight instructors themselves) but now that somebody has thrown the first rock, they have to.
As I mentioned before, those intro flights were tolerated so far. How about in other European countries? How do you handle intro flights?