Englishal - what a good idea!
I now I am going to stick my neck out again.
The fact is (or it seems to me) that AOPA (of which I was a member), PPLIR (of which I am a member), and doubtless other organisations who might have campaigned on our behalf, have made no head way on this issue despite it having been around for some time, and despite all the adverse changes that came with JAR. For example, what happened to the old IR grandfather rights before JAR for pilots with more than 600 hours, and which of these organisations played hell about the lack of a regulatory impact assessment. It was firghtening that I think two years past before any training organisations were able to offer the PPL IR theory course, but who was concenred about this when the legislation hit the statute book? By all means tell me I am wrong. The fact is when the federals started closing down airspace to GA following 9/11, AOPA and GA in the States were in the forefront putting forward their view and we all new it because their web site told us, their newsletters told us, the press even told us.
That said maybe PPrune could make its voice heard initially through one of these organisations and mabe together with PPLIR for example a constructive and persuasive campaign could be got underway???????