NQY Flying Club
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Fly NQY=FTO not a club.
Club is run by members for members,and instructors can be 'unpaid',as will be many of the 'helpers'.
Both offer similar services,but the whole point of the 'club' system was/is to keep the cost down by utilising part 'volunteer' staffing.
Flying clubs did not have to have 'commercial' instructors as indeed most instructors were 'hours building' towards a commercial licence,and there were regulations with regard to payments.
Some airfields only allowed a certain number of 'clubs',so FT organisations started up to get around the restriction.This is all going to change under EASA with any training operation having to produce similar ops manuals and records,and any new instuctors will allready have a commercial licence.
Last edited by POBJOY; 31st March 2013 at 18:29.