My involvement with PFA is purely as an ordinary member, but I regularly sit at meetings alongside their senior staff. They do work hard, and I think you'll find are pretty shrewd negotiators on behalf of their members. Nobody's perfect, but I'd say all three of the big clubs (PFA, BMAA, BGA) get a pretty high proportion of what they set out to achieve.
I'm also a great admirer of their "Safety Awareness Days", which are quite excellent. Not to mention the rally, and the fact that (at-least if you fly a PFA aeroplane) you can get conversions, advanced flying courses and your BFR pretty cheaply through the coaching scheme. And a pretty good magazine.
The NPPL by the way was originally an AOPA proposal, but is now being driven by a steering group comprising AOPA, PFA, BMAA, CAA and BGA (in no particular order).
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