Intensive PPL with on-site accommodation in nice location?
Currently, the thieving €urocrats are demanding huge figures to grandfather the approval of a 'JAR' approved US-based training organisation.
For example, one organisation was sent 2 bills, each for 150 hrs of €urocrat time at €260.62 per hour - a total of €78186. Yes, that's seventy eight thousand, one hundred and eighty six €uros.....
Hardly surprising they declined payment and no longer provide Part-FCL PPL training.
I doubt whether any US Part-FCL PPL training will be around for much longer. So there'll be 2 choices - either do your training in Europe or go to the US, do an FAA PPL and then convert it under whatever agreement the forthcoming BASA (EASA/FAA) permits.
The Inverness area does indeed have a good micro-climate - even that fat fool Salmond cannot change that. Plus Spey salmon - and of course some excellent whisky!
I've been fortunate enough to fly military fast jets at low level in Scotland - and the scenery really was stunning. Going transonic at 250 ft chasing Jaguars up the Great Glen was probably rather naughty though.....
For example, one organisation was sent 2 bills, each for 150 hrs of €urocrat time at €260.62 per hour - a total of €78186. Yes, that's seventy eight thousand, one hundred and eighty six €uros.....
Hardly surprising they declined payment and no longer provide Part-FCL PPL training.
I doubt whether any US Part-FCL PPL training will be around for much longer. So there'll be 2 choices - either do your training in Europe or go to the US, do an FAA PPL and then convert it under whatever agreement the forthcoming BASA (EASA/FAA) permits.
The Inverness area does indeed have a good micro-climate - even that fat fool Salmond cannot change that. Plus Spey salmon - and of course some excellent whisky!
I've been fortunate enough to fly military fast jets at low level in Scotland - and the scenery really was stunning. Going transonic at 250 ft chasing Jaguars up the Great Glen was probably rather naughty though.....
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Nobody gives a toss though about low flying.
There is a story about someone coming back with a tree attached to the airframe on something fast and pointy. No complaints and they started visiting the locals to try and find out where it happen.
Someone spotted on one farm that there was 6ft missing off a tree near by within 500ft of the farm house.
On asking if a jet had removed it, ayyyeeee was the reply.
Did you not think to phone us about the low flying?
No son that wasn't low for gawds sake.
When they came over the field and pulled the deer fence out with that hook thing on the back that was getting low. Yon tree is just normal.
Could be just a local story but its pretty well discussed that low jets are a lot higher than they used to be 15-20 years ago.
I am not surprised they are shutting FL down, certain country's were really not happy about the whole setup with the UK CAA.
There is a story about someone coming back with a tree attached to the airframe on something fast and pointy. No complaints and they started visiting the locals to try and find out where it happen.
Someone spotted on one farm that there was 6ft missing off a tree near by within 500ft of the farm house.
On asking if a jet had removed it, ayyyeeee was the reply.
Did you not think to phone us about the low flying?
No son that wasn't low for gawds sake.
When they came over the field and pulled the deer fence out with that hook thing on the back that was getting low. Yon tree is just normal.
Could be just a local story but its pretty well discussed that low jets are a lot higher than they used to be 15-20 years ago.
I am not surprised they are shutting FL down, certain country's were really not happy about the whole setup with the UK CAA.
In the (hopefully) unlikely event of that idiot Salmond hoodwinking enough people in Scotland into voting for independence, Scotland will become a foreign country outside the EU. Neither would it be an EASA member state....
So what would be the effect on pilots resident in Scotland holding pilot licences, or those training for them?
As Scotland would no longer be part of the UK, one assumes that the IMC rating / IR(R) will not be valid for use as 'Scottish' airspace would be outside the UK FIR.
And who would be responsible for all the activities currently discharged by the UK CAA or NATS? Such as airspace regulation, pilot licensing, maintenance oversight.....and aircraft registration?
I'm not sure that any thought has been given to the problems which Scotland-based pilots would face, should their compatriots be stupid enough to believe Salmond's nonsense and vote for independence.
So what would be the effect on pilots resident in Scotland holding pilot licences, or those training for them?
As Scotland would no longer be part of the UK, one assumes that the IMC rating / IR(R) will not be valid for use as 'Scottish' airspace would be outside the UK FIR.
And who would be responsible for all the activities currently discharged by the UK CAA or NATS? Such as airspace regulation, pilot licensing, maintenance oversight.....and aircraft registration?
I'm not sure that any thought has been given to the problems which Scotland-based pilots would face, should their compatriots be stupid enough to believe Salmond's nonsense and vote for independence.
