Not this again................
What would be the benefit of not allowing the Ex.3, the air experience flight?
It would be impossible to police and if we had to vet every customer who came through the door. Flying schools would be closed within weeks.
The current system works fine, so what if the majority of people have no intention of continuing. That isn't the point. They are flying in aircraft maintained to the Public Transport Category and flown by qualified Flying Instructors. Why make an issue out of it?
How this can be seen as "dodgy" is beyond me. It isn't and it's just people being pedantic idiots that raise this up every so often.
The content of an "air experience flight" isn't defined and until it is the CAA can produce whatever they like in unreadable CAP's and messages from Trainingcom, but nobody is doing anything wrong as long as the a/c are suitable and the FI is qualified.
CAP755 mentions nothing of this and is probably the worst document I have read from the CAA. Like everything that comes from the belgrano recently, it is all advisory and quite frankly hopeless. Full of "shoulds" not "musts."
Another example is the advisory note about Single Power Lever Controls. Not law and nothing can be done if you ignore it. Not how they've written it though.