Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:01 am
#1854619
In Canada when I apply for a rating, or a renewal, I am not required to send in a ‘Certified Copy Of’ my pilot’s licence.
A form is filled in, a copy of the logbook and /or Pilot Training Record pages showing the completion of the specific training required, signed and cosigned by the instructor and student, and if a flight test was required, a copy of this too...
Transport Canada has a record of all the licences it has issued, the validity of medicals and all the ratings it has issued, and the competent official has access to this information when there’s an application for a rating.
Indeed I was an “Authorised Person”. I myself assessed an applicant’s application for a rating, a PPL, or an RPP, and if it met the requirements I could sign that person’s licence with the rating, or Student Pilot Permit with a PPL or RPP.
The only time I need a Certified Copy is when I apply for a foreign licence or validation.
I am used to doing this for Thai validations... But not when applying for something in the country in which my licence has been issued.
The implication is that CAA do not have a record of the licences it has issued, and so it requires a certified copy of the piece of paper, easily forged, it supposedly issued.
Is the CAA guilty of not maintaining proper records?
When I renewed my Driver’s Licence, the DVLC process was easy and efficient since clearly DVLC keeps proper records even if the CAA apparently doesn’t.
Is keeping proper licensing records required by ICAO?
UK pilot’s in Thailand pay £45 to the CAA to release their records to the CAAT in order to be issued Validations on the basis of their CAA and EASA licences.
How can the CAA do this, and yet require their native pilots to send them Certified Copies of the licences that the CAA themselves supposedly issued?
CAA:
To Thailand, “yes we have proof of this pilot holding a licence.”
To the customer in England, “prove that we issued a licence to you”.
Is there a means, perhaps through an ombudsman, to file a complaint against the CAA for failing to do its job as an ‘Authority’?
The only other awful authority I dealt with was CASA in Australia which wasn’t incompetent, it was simply slow, very slow!
MichaelP
Wandering the World