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Perhaps necessity also plays a part? My experience is of Aus, where again GA gets a 'better deal', that said, there GA is not just a rich man's toy, it has real utility. There's a lot of commercial GA, and a real need for making the 4 seat charters and the like. I suspect the US may have been the same.
Back in the UK I get the feeling that in the vast majority of cases, it's either airline ops, or a leisure activity. I know there are exceptions, but.
Back in the UK I get the feeling that in the vast majority of cases, it's either airline ops, or a leisure activity. I know there are exceptions, but.
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I agree with you. In the USA which is a large landmass and where cities could be 200 miles apart there has always been more of a practical need for light aircraft as a mode of travel to get from A to B.
Lawyers, Doctors, Businessmen all owned light GA right from the smallest to large business jets but for me the key words are practical means of transport.
In Europe Light GA has never filled the practical means of transport category especially in the lighter aircraft and have always been regarded as leisure aircraft.
In the USA the FAA made the IR much more achievable so that the "practical means of transport" could be just that.
Over here we still carry the banner of leisure flying for sunny days only. That is how the authorities see us and want to keep us.
With the advent of the EEC and so called elimination of individual country boundaries and ecouragement of free movement that should have changed but somehow has not within Europe.
That may have something to do with the BIG STATE attitude of our political systems in Europe and the fact that GA is still seen as a rich mans playground more than GA aircraft being a needed business tool or transport mode.
Practical means of transport is the key and other than in the higher levels of GA those words dont fit in Europe. Even in the higher levels of GA the company Jet is still seen as polluting indulgence rather than a practical wealth creating tool which was never the case in the USA.
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I agree with you. In the USA which is a large landmass and where cities could be 200 miles apart there has always been more of a practical need for light aircraft as a mode of travel to get from A to B.
Lawyers, Doctors, Businessmen all owned light GA right from the smallest to large business jets but for me the key words are practical means of transport.
In Europe Light GA has never filled the practical means of transport category especially in the lighter aircraft and have always been regarded as leisure aircraft.
In the USA the FAA made the IR much more achievable so that the "practical means of transport" could be just that.
Over here we still carry the banner of leisure flying for sunny days only. That is how the authorities see us and want to keep us.
With the advent of the EEC and so called elimination of individual country boundaries and ecouragement of free movement that should have changed but somehow has not within Europe.
That may have something to do with the BIG STATE attitude of our political systems in Europe and the fact that GA is still seen as a rich mans playground more than GA aircraft being a needed business tool or transport mode.
Practical means of transport is the key and other than in the higher levels of GA those words dont fit in Europe. Even in the higher levels of GA the company Jet is still seen as polluting indulgence rather than a practical wealth creating tool which was never the case in the USA.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 25th Jun 2010 at 10:06.
