I already mentioned that coincidence in another Forum.
The world has become an unsafer place with all the new EU regulation crap.
Today a PPL holder gets away with one hour of flight and a checkride to renew his licence. That is not even close to being enough.
There was a time when that requirement was 24 hours in 2 years.
At least that took the show off guys out of the sky because they didn't have the dough to pursue their "hobby".