MANY thanks BeAgle, and for the Civil Serpent, I wish to gain the NPPL I am totally fit and healthy and at 43 Im not a geriatric, I do however wear a hearing aid, and can hear almost as well as you probably, however I probably would not pass the medical on hearing grounds, according to my Instructors I hear and fly as well as any other student.
The NPPL will allow me to fly, the class II medical is overly stringent in this one regard in my opinion, and as I want to fly because I LOVE flying and dont want an aviation career and have no burning ambition to fly to Europe the NPPL will suit me well
NPPL students may be able to train in less hours, but they still take the same exams, they still have to be competent and take the same ground exams...and above all must be as safe as anyone else. How many instructors would say...Oh its only an NPPL let him go solo now ?? or how many eaminers would pass an NPPL because they were unsafe??