QNH 1013 I hear what you say about market pressure to keep prices down & it should apply in any free market.
BUT, if all our local airfields have been closed down, by developers or NIMBYs, except one, & that airfield owner retains the exclusive rights to sell AVGAS, AND he charges the flying schools a high price for fuel, parking, landing & flight training rights ....... WHERE is the competition to keep prices down?
I assume in the USA, it is fairly simple (at least in some areas) just to move down the road, buy your own field & set up your own school.
In the UK there is also a lot more red tape on flying schools. WHY do training aircraft have to have Public CofA, when there is no equivelant for flight schools in the USA?
I could go one .... but that is enough RANT for today
