What saddens me most is the negative impact that all this uncertainty has had on our morale and the wicked waste of thousands of hours of instructors' time attending seminars. We were given a CD with 'how to do an ATO application' which is now useless (I'm pleased to say). The one I attended at Exeter must have had well over 100 people there.
Thankfully most of us put off actually wasting more time writing manuals which it turns out we'll likely never need.
Standardisation. This time around, we invited our FI examiner to visit with us - he spent a whole day with 2 of us and I must say it was FAR more valuable than the 2-day seminar I went to 3 years ago. We each did a 90-minute flight test, long and short briefings and an extensive de-brief - a long day for us and the examiner (2 hour drive each way) but much appreciated.
Perhaps we could go back to having AOPA running PPL training???
TOO