[MikeB]

I'm not, as most know, a qualified pilot,

I'm not sure about that Captain Mulberry either. He can't even spell transponder in the clubhouse debrief!

[johnm]

You need to bear in mind that this is aimed at 32 different cultures, so it's no surprise that the cynical and awkward one finds it a bit pathetic

[golfcharlie]

I see that the EASA page so far counts a total of 162 'members' from around Europe. I think the rest of the European GA community probably shares the ridicule in which this comic is held.

[johnm]

It's not a lot different from the RAF's Pilot Officer Prune in fact.

[rf3flyer]

...two of the guilty have actually signed their names to this patronising codswallop.

Well one of the two is in HR Management & Development, which probably tells you all you need to know.

[Flintstone]

A gaseous effusion in a lift would get my attention.

That's just wrong on so many levels.

[Crash one]

Once again this drivel says a lot about EASA's opinion of the aviation community.

[G-BLEW]

How much are we paying for this?

Nothing apparently, it's all done by volunteers in their spare time.

Ian

[Flintstone]

How much are we paying for this?

Nothing apparently, it's all done by volunteers in their spare time.

Ian

Well it's worth every penny.

[Pete L]

If it's got 3 pages or so on every flyer forum then it's probably done it's job.

I'm just looking forward to the Australian Bush Pilot version.

[Flintstone]

If only I knew how to use Photoshop and Paint.

[johnm]

Once again this drivel says a lot about EASA's opinion of the aviation community.

Not quite as patronising as the CAA was...…..

[Chris Martyr]

You need to bear in mind that this is aimed at 32 different cultures, so it's no surprise that the cynical and awkward one finds it a bit pathetic

John,, ,,the "cynical and awkward one" had one of the best pilot & engineer licensing systems in the world at one time . Until 'they' came along and screwed it all up !

The reasons why they are perceived by so many as an overweight , bungling and monolithic ivory tower of uber-administrators , is because they have walked into glass-door after glass-door.
OK , I know that Sunny Swift is fairly innocent stuff , but it actually reflects rather badly on EASA's already sullied reputation . I'm sure I am not alone here in thinking , 'do they really mean it to look this amateurish'. More to the point , do they actually KNOW how amateurish it all looks .
And it looks pathetic , regardless of which one of the 32 cultures one originates from !

[johnm]

As I said above it reminds me of the RAF’s Pilot Officer Prune so you’d have loved it in 1946;-)

[cockney steve]

Arguably, education was considerably less wide and deep in the 1940's .
With the advent of modern communications (the internet, TV) many "trade-secrets" are now open- house.
P.O Prune was "of his day" and a youngster, virtually fresh out of school, with a very narrow life-experience, would ,no doubt, have found these tips extremely useful.

I can look back on my callow youth and see just how unworldly and naive I really was, many of my peers, even more-so.
Let us not forget that these hyped-up, wet-behind the -ears, invincible youths were put in charge of very expensive equipment and the Government needed to extract maximum service from both man and machine.