Originally Posted by johnm
Silly and unhelpful, many pilots enjoy the training and skills development as much as any other aspect of flying and that shouldn't be discouraged.
How do you figure that? How many low timers go and do IMCR that cannot keep it current? How many TRY and keep a licence by flying the minimum hours around a 1 mile circuit? How many let the PPL/IMCR lapse after 18mts because of non use? How many posts do we see here from lapsed IMCR guys? How many PPL's do 50 hrs a year for goodness sake?
The only guys it seems to me that do any sort of descent hours are the guys that CANNOT hold a IMCR/IR,
the microlight lads. They make me feel downright ashamed of being a PPL(A) flying 30 to 60 hours a year when they are all over the place, flying all over the country. How many of us do that?
There is a need for PPL's do do a minimum amount of annual hours before considering wasting more money on yet another useless bit of paper when they are not making use of what they have. Makes them more of an enthusiast rather than a pilot and fit in the same barrel as a spotter.