Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:58 pm
#1811200
I've put this under licensing as the examples I quote are all in that area. This is not aimed at anyone in particular, but I've been wondering why "we" often try to stop pilots doing things, for no apparent safety reason, rather than trying to allow as much as possible within safety boundaries? Clearly there are forward thinking and open minded people in national regulation, (thank you those people), or we would not have PMDs, or NPPLs. But what drives the other people, the ones that felt they could raise some of the issues below in the first place, never mind find enough backing to invoke most of them:
- Why would/did anyone ever suggest totally banning national licences from flying what we currently call EASA aircraft - licences that were most likely gained in those aircraft?
Why would anyone suggest that someone who has hundreds of hours flying such things as microlight Eurostars around Europe on an NPPL(M) cannot have a full ICAO PPL without doing a full 45 hours ab initio PPL course, ground and flight training and test, in order to do the same thing in a C150?
Why would anyone suggest that it is ok to let a pilot who, through not being the sharpest skilled person, took 100+ hours to get an FAA PPL fly here on a simple declaration yet a talented pilot who got an FAA PPL in minimum hours cannot have a licence conversion here unless they fly another 50+ hours or have a full 45 hour ab initio PPL course?
Why would we ban non-UK lapls, which we fully understand, and even issue ourselves to the same training and standards, from flying across our airspace say between Eire and Belgium. I know what pretext would be used if we did that ("non-ICAO"), but why would this even enter our heads that we would disapprove of this, or even banning non-UK Lapl pilots flying into the UK? (I've seen this sort of thing suggested, it hasn't been done yet).
Why would anyone think that flying 12 hours in a second year of 2 years 'means anything' in itself for flying 2 more years?
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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Deconfusion & Preflight Aide-Memoire: http://tinyurl.com/pilotpal
UK GA Twittering not Tw@ering: @irvleeuk