"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Borat wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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It's interesting to see AOPA doing a piece on "Flying in Europe", so
soon after our long thread on the same topic. Many of their
conclusions were the same as ours.

Also, strangely enough, there's another article this month on "Flying
GA to Memphis", in order to visit Beale Street and all the great blues
bands. Why, I think AOPA is copying our every word!

Knowing some of the "Europeans" they interviewed they have exaggerated a
great deal but they have given AOPA what they want to help their campaign
and good luck to them. You can fool some of the people all of the time.
Some
of the quotes were pathetic, especially the one on landings. The truth is
if
you want to fly you will, and if the costs go up you sacrifice something
that is less important to stay flying.

What parts of the article are exaggerated or incorrect?

Matt

Taken from a UK thread discussing the same article, this was written by the
Senior Air Traffic Controller at Biggin Hill

Back to the original thread.....

I could take the author to task about his comments regarding his departure
from Biggin.

I am assuming this was the flight I have recorded on the 8th December 2006
which arrived from Germany then departed back there some 6 hours later. I do
not know where he got his $150 landing and nav service charge from as we do
not have a separate nav charge and the landing fee for a Twin Crunchie is
not $150.

During his 6 hour stop over did he did not walk into Flight Op's and make
use of the WSI Pilot Brief web service we provide for all weather and route
briefing, or obtain a briefing from the staff? We have a WiFi link so if he
wanted to 'do his own thing' using a laptop then that was also possible free
of charge.

Whilst I agree that GA in Europe has a raw deal compared to the USA
'flowery' writing like this can only be for the purpose of making a bad
situation look even worse.