Originally Posted by
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It's pretty depressing really but its hard to see how to fix it when "Captain Average" flies about 20 to 30 hours a year, may have trained decades ago and their only contact with officialdom is a biennial flight with an instructor which has no fixed format, syllabus or standard. I do my bit but you can only cover so much in an hour.
A good start would be for the "authorities" to do away with some of the punitive taxes and bureaucracy that leads to the cost of flying in Europe being 2-3x the cost in the US, for absolutely no valid reason. Everyone would be much more current then...
Of course, safety is not what the authorities are interested in.