Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:16 am
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Flyin'Dutch' wrote:I take it that Irv has me down as an Europhile.
For the avoidance of doubt, this proposal is in my view dumb and incomprehensible. What are they trying to achieve. Bonkers.
It's probably a reasonable position to be a Europhile but an EASAphobe, or at the very least an EASAskeptic.
Or even a Europhile but an EUphobe, but that's an argument best kept to other threads
In the meantime, if we returned Concorde to service, that is Annex II. So a British or French Concorde co-pilot would not be able to count their Concorde right hand seat hours towards achieving a full EASA ATPL and thus Captaincy. That alone, even if a fictional concept, should be a good enough argument to show the utter absurdity of this.
In the non fictional world...
- Hours in a Super-Cub will count to a CPL, or to maintain an EASA PPL, but in a Europa won't.
- Many research aeroplanes are Annex II, so the UK's Metman BAe-146-301 will suddenly find that its pilots can no longer count their BAe-146 hours to maintaining their ATPLs.
- (Virtually) all military aeroplanes are Annex II, so military pilots with decades of service in any country in Europe, will be treated as ab-initio students for the purposes of trying to obtain an EASA CPL or ATPL on leaving their respective services. So that will, for example, mean suddenly drying up the main source of air ambulance and police helicopter pilots.
(Just adding to the cake of absurdity.)
G
Europhile, EUphobe, EASAskeptic.
Also known as Spartacus.
I am Spartacus, and so is my co-pilot.