Pinball,

First off I appreciate your attitude , it is a breath of fresh air thank you !!

Ya I worked hard to conduct my business , I had really stiff competition in the field ,

But that was more directed at the burn out side of the Issue than at the ease of the business,

But look at it this way , if the club pays the money to opt into this program , I believe that all the instructors within that club will have to go along with it ,so where does the choice of free instruction come in ,a club in this program will not have free instruction available ,

which in turn results in this problem, and I know you dont want to hear about cost , but thats the way it works if no one spends no one makes , its that simple ,this would virtually eliminate the young people and the older fixed income people from entrance or very serverly slow the process , what I see is a young person who wants to fly , joining a club and only being able to afford one lesson or in the terms of hourly one hour a month towards flight instruction , given the numbers used here even if they could afford 2 instruction periods a month, that would be one year to solo, not only would the instructor become aggrevated with the student the student just by virtue of the time would more than likely dissapear with much bad feelings and much bad advertising ,

watching the guy with money solo in three weeks and 4 weeks , I know this is not everyones concern but it is one of mine ,

the next is the quaility control issue of this , just as you stated , there will be varying degrees of quaility , and since there will be no PRO staus required , which means the instructor ,s have put in the time , effort and responsibility to achieve ,it really makes it a buyer beware situation,

right now all the instructors work togther , do you think they still will ? or will it become something else.

which means that the student gets the benefit of maybe combined time of 100 years experiance , that will be made into a case by case experiance ,

all in all, if it happens it happens , but I think that AMA needs to get a handle on what maybe some very serious problems in the design and planning of any such move , not just move toward an income , and not move quickly to make changes , I also dont think that Hossfly has really seriuosly considered all of the ramifications either , but thats another ball of wax.

Highlander