DrPixie
Drpixie, Hope your a rather civilised chap or gal, however
The "other" considerations are the economic cost to a student. Its increasingly becoming an industry where the training costs become unattainable for an increasingly larger pool of young pilots, or pilots wanting to take on a mid career change. We don't want to turn it into a career, exclusively for the well heeled.The 150 hour syllabus and the 200 hour syllabus are effectively the same regarding the Dual component. The test is after all, identical. The difference is the solo requirement. One requiring 70 hours, the other 100. Additionally the 200 hour course attracts GST. We are talking in the vicinity of an additional cost of $15,000. As you will appreciate, that's a serious amount of money
A cost effective 150 hour course could be offered within 150 hours if the solo requirement could be replaced with Dual i.e. 100 dual and 50 solo.
Im not arguing that it is the most important consideration. But it is a consideration. Not sure what the answer is, but would 20 hours additional dual, be less safe than 20 hours of solo? Its a question of the safety benefit for the economic argument. It could even just be, good old "common sense"
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