The Eurocrats are driven by the airlines and the airlines representatives on these committees are usually not a million miles away from these forums. So when they sit at committee expressing there concerns about keeping light aviation away from the fare paying punters they have a wealth of information to back up what they say.
One could of course point out the situation in the US where airlines and GA comingle without problems. I would even go further - it is BECAUSE they comingle, that there are no problems! If you learn to fly 'in the system' from day one, then you won't be totally thrown by a controller's instructions, you will also be accustomed to flying in CAS, etc, etc. I gets dangerous where those who never, ever had to deal with anything other than their local airfield (and its quite often very idiosyncratic R/T) start to mingle with the heavy metal.
it's the 14 ATPL exams and the best part of a years study with mandatory groundschool that put's me off and I suspect many of the other Pilots on here also
Count me in
