Only one poster here has realised and made the point that a PPL for £3000 means no pay for the instructor. This thought lies uncomfortably with other threads on this forum relating to work for instructors and whether they can make a living.
The facts of life are that you get what you pay for. if someone is so desperate to fly that they will do it without pay then you must question their motives, particularly if htey have paid upwards of £50,000 to qualify. Does noone have any self-esteem these days?Surely the idea is to improve conditions for instructors. To do this their status and ability needs to be valued so that they are seen to be deserving of adequate remuneration.
In reality PPL instruction in this country is far too cheap, because the margins are too tight for the schools to make a proper profit and when they feel the pinch the first thing they cut is instructor pay. I have been in instructing for ten years and the basic pay has not increased at all, if anything it is less overall. Can this really be right? As other poster have pointed out JAR was supposed to improve conditions for instructors but unless the uneven playing field is levelled, there will continue to be the ridiculourly cheap offers out there undermining the realistic.
Come on chaps it's about time we united to make the industry realise that they have to pay a proper living wage for instructors and to show the schools that they will simply have to charge more. After all whoever heard of a plumber or a car mechanic who charged less than £45 an hour?