Nice attitude Bose-x, I have read many of your posts on here, and you have always seemed like a decent guy, but those ideas of yours are very very misguided. I might "only be a VFR" pilot, but remember that is where you started ( saying that, you prob did your ppl in a 737
) , and I fly for pleasure, not a job.
No one minds a few little charges to fund the airfield, but GA is becoming increasingly a rich boys sport, which should not be allowed to happen. People moan about PPL's lack of currency, lack of IR, blah blah blah, what do they expect when even at a small airfeild the handling bill, landing and approach fees cost almost as much as the flying time?
.... the less people fly, the more the airports have to pass costs on to other airfield users, by increasing fees. See the circle there?
3 hours PPL VFR flying, even in an aircraft such as a C150 or a PA28 will cost well over £400, which is getting on for well over half of most peoples mortgage