Hamish, are you serious?
I understand the money issue, but 50 hours is
nothing in relation to the amount of VFR days we get in the UK per year. Let's take a relatively low figure and say we get 6 hours per day of sunlight over the course of a year, that equates to just over 2,000 hours.
Really think only 2.5% of daylight hours are VFR?!
Another way of thinking about it... An hour a week.
I tend to agree with the 50 hr figure - by no means is it saying you're unsafe if you fly any degree below that, hell I'm sure the CAA did their own tests to determine the magic 12 hrs. But flying once a week makes a noticeable difference to flying once a month.
