I can only echo Nick's comments on the disgust felt at the class-ism in that thread. Just plain wrong, and frankly a big part of whats wrong with this country today. I consider myself neither wealthy nor upper class (heck, not even upper middle class!) and yet I fly helicopters. You can get a PPL(H) for around 14k, thats used Vauxhall money, so it's hardly the pursuit of the well heeled any more. Just dont by a second car. Keeping it current at the bare minimums equates to the price of 2 good nights out with the lads per month. So this petitioner's ire at it makes it all the less palatable as he sees it as a pursuit for those he is obviously jealous of.
Still, thats the public for you. I was in the supermarket yesterday, and the Police helicopter was overhead looking for kids causing mayhem with quad bikes, only to be told by the 20 stone mother of 3 feral children troglodite beside me (apropos nothing) that it was 'a shocking waste of money, 20 grand an hour it costs to fly that' etc etc. Public eh
