I love this bulletin board - you can guarantee ill informed comment on almost ever topic!. .. .Nice try Query! Presumably you have chosen to forget that the only people who opposed the NPPL were the flying schools and medical examiners?. .. .Or perhaps you are one of them and trying to protect your income under the spurious hat of safety?. .. .If the NPPL is going to be so incredibly dangerous why not insist the JAR course is 100 hours - surely that will make it much much safer? And while you're at ban anyone over 35 from flying - they might have an undetected medical condition!. .. .The NPPL brings the licence back much nearer to where a PPL should be. The whole idea that more training equate to more safety is spurious. In many cases because the course is much longer than it was there is no incentive to make people progress - look at the time to first solo - used to be 5 to 7 hours, now its hitting 15 - are people stupidier, aircraft harder to land, or is it just lets be very very careful?. .. .Happy landings