The idea is to improve and/or extend your flying skills, not to trap you.
So to continue my analogy - it's like being forced to spend an hour every couple of years with a qualified driving instructor to be able to continue to drive... even if I choose to take that in a rally car or a 4WD event, or even just give a driving instructor a lift to the shops, I would still
have to do it one way or the other or my driving licence becomes invalid. No?
Somebody please explain the point of making it compulsory (with the associated paperwork and potential new offences, etc). How will it improve flying? I mean, if somebody is forced to fly with an instructor who wouldn't otherwise do it they're not really take much away from teh event, are they?
I'm not trying to be difficult, honest
, I'm just trying to understand what will be the law and what will be the guidance to Their Worships when somebody eventually gets nabbed by CAA Enforcement Branch for flying with an invalid licence.
MB