Monocock
Someone decides to spend their money abroad to get a cheaper PPL and then comes back to whinge about how things are in the UK deserves no sympathy. Does he not realise that by depriving a UK of the revenue of yet another PPL course that he is paying the consequential price of an airfield trying to make ends meet? Perhaps if he had trained in the UK he would have contributed to our fraternity, done his part for our cause and wouldn't have been so quick to criticise.
Monocock
Sorry have butted into this thread because I dont agree with your sentiments.
Surely he should be coming/staying in the UK to get a cheaper PPL than in the USA not the other way around? Isnt that the basis of any free market?
We are saddled with needless over regulation, needless Burocracy, excessive taxes to pay for a whole host of irrelevant things and sadly we are now one of the most expensive highly taxed countries in the world and a country which has eroded away its freedoms through that big brother state mindset.
Why did 70 to 100000 pilots get FAA licences to fly in Europe? Because of a deep love of the USA?
You supply good services and attractive products at attractive prices and the market will follow.
Europe and the UK need to de regulate, reduce taxation, eliminate waste and in aviation put a system into place which is attractive and encourages it to grow not throttles GA to death as is happening now!
Even our most famous academy at Oxford Kidlington palmed out its training to the USA go figure ?
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