G the E, I did enquire about the LAA coaching scheme with reference to reval of my NPPL(M) in 2014. I forget exactly what happened but I think Turweston couldn't point me to any LAA coaches able to help.
Maybe you know who I should be talking to? I am in the Reading area but obviously I can fly to wherever I need to be for the flight.
The time before, in 2012 was just after my aircraft was damaged by a storm and I was obliged to go to a flying school and do the flight in a "strange" aircraft at great expense.
It isn't just the expense that annoys me it is the imposition of the system after working with the old PPL method for so long. If it had been imposed in the name of safety it would have been applied to the PPL(m) licence holders at the same time. It was done, I'm told, to simplify paperwork across the NPPL types. The people representing the microlighters on the NPPL committee were not in favour of the change but some bod from the LAA (who at the time represented a tiny tiny fraction of the NPPL licence holders) railroaded it through without doing the necessary impact assessment.