OK. No point in encouraging anybody to be aspirational. It would be very un-British to do so, after all. Let's forget about flying abroad - nobody wants to do that.
For me it's not any lack of aspiration, it's just that flying long distances over fields and houses at 10,000 ft isn't where my aspirations lie. Just a personal thing, you understand. If I want to turn on the autopilot and burn £2-£3 per minute I can employ someone do that whilst I sit in reasonable comfort eating a sandwich .
And my club statistics agree with you - no-one want to fly abroad. Around 120 pilots fly with us, so it's not a bad sample.
I switched to an NPPL when I could because the medical was a significant part of the hourly rate that I paid, and because I'd flown abroad a few times, and Europe is Europe however you get there. So I dropped that privilege and keep the one that allows me to get into the air and fly. If I lived further from London I'd switch to microlight and save more money, but parking around here costs a fortune.
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