Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:47 pm
#1872719
VRB_20kt wrote:
Presumably an SEP FI can do microlight differences and then teach microlights.
An SEP FI can currently teach Microlights anyway, no need to have differences training. Quite a few do. Of these, a goodly proportion have no idea about how to fly safely and well an aeroplane with much lower inertia than they are used to, with a low wing loading and with an engine that really will dump you into a field.
In my time as a microlight examiner the only students I had to fail had been taught by SEP FIs.
The BMAA training committee were irritated by their inability to make sure these students were taught to the microlight syllabus, but couldn't do anything about it.
I say again, you can kiss goodbye to low cost aviation - in a few years all microlight training will be concentrated at a few big schools and all sales of new aeroplanes will be at 600kg.