It seems that there are a number of professional pilots around (myself included, as it happens) who do not wish to be involved with BALPA.
It also seems that pilots, as a body, want to be effectively represented, and, perhaps, feel they wish to be a little militant at the moment in order to reclaim some of the ground lost in recent years.
The IPF, grown as it has from the IPA, presents an alternative. However, it seems to be more attractive to those who have been IPA members and understand the organisation's quirks.
Is there sufficient desire for an effective trade union to make it worthwhile for some PPRuNErs to look into setting a new one up?
I might, just might, be willing to pitch in...