Im only pointing out the financial outlay concerned. We're away to hit a recession and fuel prices are at an all time high. Avgas is becoming very expensive, as are flying club rates. Not everybody has a spare 7 or 8 thousand quid to spend on a rating.
The only recession coming is the one we talk ourselves into......
BlacJake, sorry but you are wide of the mark here. There is no magical skills that doing a CPL gives you. Handling is about handling and the only difference between a PPL skills test and a CPL skills test is a bit tighter tolerances nothing more. Any CPL who thinks that because they hold a CPL it makes them a better pilot is an arrogant ass.
Any pilot who the dedication, skill and knowledge can teach regardless of being a PPL or CPL. There are many of each kind who will never be able to teach as long as their respective bums point downwards. Bringing back the opportunity for PPLs to teach again just widens the catchment for getting quality people into teaching and will hopefully introduce some continuity back into the GA scene.
The people who moan about the changes are generally those who are seeing the free meal ticket to hours going out the window.
We have to take a wider look at the state that the GA scene is in due to lack of continuity with the ours builders jumping at the firs airline job and leaving a vacuum that is bringing GA down. PPL instructors will fill the vacuum and bring back the old sense of club that existed in the past with peer teaching etc.
I don't feel threatened by it at all and welcome it with open arms as I am wise enough to know that natural selection will prevail.