QoM candidate:-
"Mr Cromarty, you have no idea what is killing GA.
The joys of a 15yo hangar rat, washing planes, helping the LAMEs in the hangar, washing more planes in kind for training hours, bumming rides on positioning flights, hanging around the tarmac airside for literally hours waiting for return flight, getting invited up to the tower for no other reason than being there, bumming flights in B200s on cargo flights and paper runs, before that those same pilots at a younger age doing the same thing themselves, re-fuelling, taxiing aircraft back to the hangar from the flight line.
Mate, I’ve got the logbook to prove it; over a hundred different aircraft and more than thirty models of everything out of the US....all this is now FORBIDDEN by the fun police.
There is way more, like banner towing launches, skud running at zot feet to avoid weather to get the job done without risking life and limb, how to make a plan on the back of a cigi packet and try and learn mental arithmetic tricks...all this made me a better pilot before I even applied for my licence. Soloed in under 7hrs gliders in less than 5, dollars and fractured AC joint stopped me more than anything.- that and the advent of the sausage factory in Cessnock...Everything that was fun and free now has a reg specifically to stop it. That is what killed GA...Forgive me if I’m out of line but shithot, I had a bloody fun childhood...that’s why there are no kids on the fence anymore."
"Mr Cromarty, you have no idea what is killing GA.
The joys of a 15yo hangar rat, washing planes, helping the LAMEs in the hangar, washing more planes in kind for training hours, bumming rides on positioning flights, hanging around the tarmac airside for literally hours waiting for return flight, getting invited up to the tower for no other reason than being there, bumming flights in B200s on cargo flights and paper runs, before that those same pilots at a younger age doing the same thing themselves, re-fuelling, taxiing aircraft back to the hangar from the flight line.
Mate, I’ve got the logbook to prove it; over a hundred different aircraft and more than thirty models of everything out of the US....all this is now FORBIDDEN by the fun police.
There is way more, like banner towing launches, skud running at zot feet to avoid weather to get the job done without risking life and limb, how to make a plan on the back of a cigi packet and try and learn mental arithmetic tricks...all this made me a better pilot before I even applied for my licence. Soloed in under 7hrs gliders in less than 5, dollars and fractured AC joint stopped me more than anything.- that and the advent of the sausage factory in Cessnock...Everything that was fun and free now has a reg specifically to stop it. That is what killed GA...Forgive me if I’m out of line but shithot, I had a bloody fun childhood...that’s why there are no kids on the fence anymore."