As I recall T28 wrote about his experience flat spotting the tires on a Mooney through poor pilot technique, and not long after disappeared. I imagine he got out of flying due to it not being socially upscale enough or technically advanced enough to suit his ethereal world view 
@Peter, I understand the guy who does the F5s makes his real money in biotech…. which translated means a medium sized company that makes disposable rat cages for drug research. The aviation side must be more fun.
His profile was one of the rare but not that rare ones: a very clever guy who posts good stuff for a few years, then changes to posting less than pleasant stuff, and then a year or two later goes off the rails and gets banned.
I am pretty sure most do it deliberately, to get banned, as a part of a decision to get off social media. The reasons can be
Re the rat cages, I used to know a guy who made a living making rat guillotines… same application, sadly
Silvaire wrote:
As I recall T28 wrote about his experience flat spotting the tires on a Mooney through poor pilot technique, and not long after disappeared.
As far as I know, he had to sell off his Ovation because he lost his job. Possibly that is why he is no longer in aviation.
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Most clubs in France have bénévoles as instructors these days. As a club we have 2 hourly rates €155 p/h solo and €175 p/h dual with instructor. This is for a DA40D. The €20 covers the insurance for the instructor plus a contribution to other expenses such as FFA membership and petrol money.
The hourly charge is block block and the instructor will usually spend an hour or more briefing and debriefing before and after a flight plus time spent preparing a student for their theory exams.
An instructor also holds meetings from time to time to explain any changes in regulations or giving an introduction to the use of software like SDVFR or GPS usage.
This last is for all club members who wish to attend not just students.
So a young person who gets a PPL in 50hrs will pay £8750 at our club + their subscription to the club and FFA fee. Under 25 years old pay less for club membership and the FFA fee depends on the level of personal insurance you want and whether or not you subscribe to InfoPilote.
There are also bursaries, tax breaks for parents and other financial assistance through the FFA and the government mainly aimed at those at Lycée who have an interest in aviation (not necessarily professional)
There are clubs which have cheaper solo and dual rates and others which are more expensive.
Some of the larger clubs have salaried instructors. The dual hourly rate at these may be more expensive but then as the aircraft do more hours they might be cheaper on a solo rate or they might just have more modern and better equipped aircraft.
Some of these bigger clubs are also ATOs and offer MEP and IR training. Some are DTOs ( as most clubs are) but have an arrangement with an ATO for the 10hours of the CBIR which needs to be done in an ATO.
Finally there are the mainly career training ATOs (although many still accept private).
These cater for both French from the hexagon and Dom Toms and foreign students. French students can often access grants either as part of their educational developement eg in place of a University degree or company/organisational development eg the ATS might financially support an air traffic controller to gain a PPL. There are also grants to support someone who wants a career change. The larger ATOs are more savvy about how to help students access this financial assistance.
Yes we all pay for this one way or another because part of company tax in France goes towards training and retraining.
I know many on here won’t like that but that’s the way it is and had been for as long as I can remember.
I know many on here won’t like that
Why would anyone not like that?
Higher taxes🙂
Yeah, ok, but each of us lives in the country they live in, with the tax policy they have. Across Europe there is a fair bit of variation in redistributive policies.
Emir wrote:
OT: Isn’t May 1st Labour day?
Not in the US…. Can you imagine the US celebrating a day introduced by the Second (socialist) International in commemoration of a general strike in the US in 1886?
Can you imagine the US celebrating a day introduced by the Second (socialist) International in commemoration of a general strike in the US in 1886?
Oh yeah… they blurred all the stuff that remind that in the past people in US also fought for basic human rights as well. Although I don’t get it why – it’s part of the history and eventually contributed to progress. They don’t celebrate March 8th either.
