BEagle,
Your statement of;
I suspect the LAASG results are on hold whilst the lunacy of EASA dreams up ever more heavy-handed, expensive and unnecessary 'regulations'.
Shows a distinct lack of knowledge which immediately rubishes the rest of your statement.
One would expect that someone like you would know that there is no requirement under JAR-FCL for PPL training to be completed at a licensed aerodrome.
You are like the nice lady anti-europe campaigner that some time back complaied because she had to have her whole house re-plumbed because new plumbing is metric and she had imperial sizes.
Getting your facts correct would be less of a hinderance to your cause.
While you are at it, you might like to note that elsewhere in Europe, training aircraft can have Private airworthiness requirements as can club owned aircraft and there is not the max 20 member limit on group owned aircraft or the max 4 divisions of cost sharing.
I would support having the airspace cleared of pilots flying in IMC who are not qualified to instrument rating standards, can not accept many clearances and are in the majority of cases are not current. (The UK cost of the IR not being a good excuse for lax safety standards in increasingly busy airspace).
Perhaps you should be praying that the UK actually goes with the more relaxed European approach.
European requirements have not added 1 cent to the cost of training in Europe and I don't expect that they will on the near future.
Regards,
DFC