Well ... the US congress has just legislated a minimum of 1500 hours be required to pilot a part 25 (i.e. airliner) aircraft ... that should pretty much kill the P2F industry over there, albeit it's nowhere nearly as badly entrenched there as it is in Europe.
Sadly it will probably take a fatal accident, as it did in the US, for the European politicians to get off their backsides and legislate something similar (and probably a lot more intense lobbying, because the floggers of the rip off schemes actually represent some serious big business now) but wouldnt that be fantastic if it came to pass. For the travelling public AND for the future T&C's of airline pilots.
It would represent a pretty seismic shift in the aspirations and expectations of the European wannabe fraternity - and no doubt 3/4 of the wannabes would kick and scream and fight against it because lets face it, it's clearly obvious from the continued rise of P2F that most of you don't want to go and fly lighties when you have even the glimmer of a fool's fantasy of a chance of flying a big aircraft, at any price - but just like a big spoonful of cod liver oil it would ultimately be for your own good
