Agree. It was originally mooted that 'our' Part 61 would have provision for the US non AOC instruction model. Methinks that current AOC, (now Part 141 and 142)holders got to CASA, who made another 'commercial' decision to manage the industry. All this has done is allow school owners to push prices for instruction-in-own-aircraft charges higher because individual instructors are effectively locked out of the market save for a few minor fields such as general competency training, activity endos such as formation and aeros, plus design features endos such as tailwheel, csu. AFR's are excluded - yet these are the very item that many pilots have to travel in to a city location, (at great expense), to complete.
Last edited by poteroo; 4th May 2016 at 07:58.
Reason: add explanation of AFR