Notice & Monocock,
What is your problem?
You are both, obviously, anti NPPL. So, don't get one.
Thousands of people, myself included, already have them. We are the microlight pilots who now automatically hold an NPPL with microlight rating.
We fly thousands and thousands of hours every year. We fly abroad. We fly hundreds of different types. We hardly ever make the news.
Many students struggle (financially) to complete a full JAR course only to find the costs of renting a tired old Cessna too prohibitive to allow more than a few hours flying a year.
Are these pilots safer than a pilot who, flying a permit aircraft on an NPPL, can afford to fly two or three time the hours a year?
I don't think so.
It's horses for courses, we don't ALL want to be CPL's or fly at night or in cloud.
Paul
Unrestricted microlight license in 40 hours over twelve months.
330 hours in 28 months since then! :-)
PS NOW I have a route into some of the wonderful 'heavy' microlights like Piper Cubs and Tiger Moths :-))