Obtaining the JAR ATPL in Australia
Join Date: Jan 1997
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Cracking argument and 100% on your side Luke but which tax burden? Compared with me, say, making and delivering pies?
We are highly taxed. We are very crowded. GA has no use in crowded, small countries with extensive train networks, motorway systems Etc.
Or did you mean we should be subsidised?
Like many others I chose to travel between London and Paris by train because aviating is a deeply unpleasant waste of the equivalent time.
To be blunt: what's the point of using an aircraft in the UK or the Benelux countries when compared to rail or the motorways? For most people and most goods most of the time it is the worst possible choice.
Point being missed folks. ATPLs are made difficult and expensive in the UK to restrict. An artificial barrier. Like a 4 year degree in the States or starvation in OZ. It serves no other purpose. There is no GA here we generally go onto jets straight away.
That's not wrong - it is simply different. Our culture and conditions are different therefore a different restricting mechanism has developed.
Regards
Rob
We are highly taxed. We are very crowded. GA has no use in crowded, small countries with extensive train networks, motorway systems Etc.
Or did you mean we should be subsidised?
Like many others I chose to travel between London and Paris by train because aviating is a deeply unpleasant waste of the equivalent time.
To be blunt: what's the point of using an aircraft in the UK or the Benelux countries when compared to rail or the motorways? For most people and most goods most of the time it is the worst possible choice.
Point being missed folks. ATPLs are made difficult and expensive in the UK to restrict. An artificial barrier. Like a 4 year degree in the States or starvation in OZ. It serves no other purpose. There is no GA here we generally go onto jets straight away.
That's not wrong - it is simply different. Our culture and conditions are different therefore a different restricting mechanism has developed.
Regards
Rob
