JodelDavo wrote:Sorry, missed the deadline. BUT...
Sent my driving licence off to DVLA last Friday afternoon to add a category. Received back today. No charge... and a 2 working day turnaround! No dumb forms, nothing.. Just left it with the Examiner.
I know the DVLA are a larger organisation but how can they do it so quickly and our wonderful aviation regulator takes longer than a long thing?
Ever get the feeling us pilots are being shafted?
It's annoyingly simple really. The DVLA invested millions in their IT with a huge amount of work delivered by IBM.
The CAA on the other hand have a broken operating model, poorly paid and poorly trained front line staff but overpaid and underperforming senior staff (you only need to Google for civil service high earners to find the spreadsheet and then filter on CAA) not enough money to invest in improvements and no clue how to invest when they do have some spare change, investing in low quality consultants or cheap IT solutions. GA makes a loss for the CAA (drones help make up the shortfall) and we tend to sound the most whiny, so we become more and more a pain in the **** for them.
I think a model where GA airworthiness and FCL is handled by a different organisation(s) is the only solution. But that's probably way to radical for most.
Anyway to bed!
Snorker.