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The Professional PPL Paradox

Years ago I sat down in a class at Moorabbin. It was a one-off weekend course entitled “PPL Refresher”. My PPL certainly needed refreshing because my bank account had forced it to go stale. The opening statement from the instructor had me thinking I’d walked into the wrong room.

“We’re here this weekend

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