Irv Lee wrote:Firstly, as I said, I don't believe we will change at all. But since 1999 we have been sacrificing real private aviation needs to meet the vocal needs of the relatively few. Want an I/r? Fine... Convert to Easa at your expense, my "wishes" didn't envisage otherwise. We should not be regulating Joe Plumber and Fred Busdriver out of aviation just because a small percentage of GA pilots want to go to some Swiss club and rent a German aircraft on a uk issued ppl. If they want to do that, why should someone whose total flying life is confined to a C172 in Yorkshire and surrounding counties effectively pay for that?
Added: just to emphasise @johnm , I am not wishing to stop anyone doing anything, unlike Easa who are determined to stop things that don't need stopping. Do private pilots who benefit from Easa (say easier I/r) actually support the idea that Easa stops other pilots from doing things like flying a 172 locally on less than an Easa medical? But whilst Easa is what it is, the benefitters are effectively parasites on fellow aviators.
Irv
That really naffs me off.
I got a UK CAA PPL yonks ago and have done nothing to curtail others who want to fly in whatever jalopy they want.
Yes, I did get a UK issued EASA licence and use this to fly in different EASA states.
To suggest that either I or anyone else going the same or similar is somehow 'wishing to stop anyone doing anything' or that others are paying for my privileges is bonkers.
You know very well that I very much in favour of anyone being able to anything arial as long as they are safe and competent, it is for that reason that I have been happy to support the BGA and LAA in all things medical including many years of giving free advice to their members and helping them in various ways including writing to their GPs when they did not get they declarations signed etc.
EASA is not great and some things are downright not good but too many people seem to wear pink tinted glasses thinking that in the good old days when it was just the CAA who regulated flying in the UK all was well.
I may be old but still have enough agility to remember that there was plenty wrong at the time.
Maybe you should explore your memory a bit and think back to the time you could only fly if you had a CAA issued PPL with the commensurate medical in a PA28 which was subjected to a number of (some costly) AANs and POH improvements thought out by someone in the Belgrano.
Or instruct with at least a BCPL and a Class 1 Medical........
Or not got a medical because some ex RAF MO decreet, 'them' were the rules cause we have always done it like that.........
Or had to take off your German exhaust kit, because it wasn't invented over here...........