Unfortunately, the current system not only permits the nutters to continue but in certain areas encourages them.
The PPL course provides the opportuntiy to end their attempt at gaining a licence or at least rearrange their attitudes.
However, as has been pointed out, most businesses are unwilling to loose the income that a student (even a bad one) provides.
Having gained their PPL, they have to source an aircraft. Here the various groups and clubs have the opportunity to stop their carzy operation but few do. If those groups / clubs do then they can still purchase their own aircraft.
Which leads on to the airfield operators who turn many a blind eye to "characters" that fall below the normal basic safe standard.
Then we have the instructors who unless they are blind, often see these very characters in operation and when asked for a signature to revalidate a rating,
However the simple fact is that these nutters are not nutters at all. They are very clever people who manage to operate dangerously, illegally and without a care in the world because of the thousands of aviators who are unwilling to tell someone in authority what is happening.
Very often when an accident happens we hear that..........it was an accident waiting to happen / it was only a matter of time before they killed themselves etc etc
Best shown by the poster on a different thred talking about seeing a pilot arrive "VFR" in IMC stating how appaled they were at such a dangerous act. However, when asked if they reported the pilot the response was that they would not find such an act acceptable.
So as long as examminers and instructors turn a blind eye to the nutters, then they are going to encourage others to follow suit.........i.e. it is a cancer............but do you recomend a nutterectomy or less invasive treatment of the problem?
Regards,
DFC