Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:20 pm
#1557340
Well, reg facility will be renamed, we expect, and you should be current long before that, but it shouldn't be a problem even if you do it next year under the new name. I expect we will be told all about it for definite early on April 7th so all the RFs have a few hours to reverse shutting down and cancel the "Goodbye Employees" parties that evening.
Mr CAA was correct in that you are able to go to an ato, but if he said you cannot go to an RF, he needs "re educating" on how to speak to customers and "how things work" now... because i know from people contacting me that it it is not just you he is giving "bad direction" to. Presumably quite a few pilots don't ask around and just do as told, and needlessly waste a lot of money doing things the hard way.
Licence: It was reissued in 2008 to put English proficiency on it, they gave everyone with an rt licence a four, but did not tell them. It was a good idea, it was meant to seamlessly get pilots to level six over four years via assessments during flight tests, but it went wrong because they didn't understand most ppl-Sep and nppl-ssea revalidate by experience, not test. Pilots only discovered the problem when masses of EASA licence applications were rejected in autumn 2012 with the reason "English level four expired" without anyone knowing they ever had an unexpired one.
Your licence will go to new format next time printed. Be careful not to use the phrase
Mr CAA was correct in that you are able to go to an ato, but if he said you cannot go to an RF, he needs "re educating" on how to speak to customers and "how things work" now... because i know from people contacting me that it it is not just you he is giving "bad direction" to. Presumably quite a few pilots don't ask around and just do as told, and needlessly waste a lot of money doing things the hard way.
Licence: It was reissued in 2008 to put English proficiency on it, they gave everyone with an rt licence a four, but did not tell them. It was a good idea, it was meant to seamlessly get pilots to level six over four years via assessments during flight tests, but it went wrong because they didn't understand most ppl-Sep and nppl-ssea revalidate by experience, not test. Pilots only discovered the problem when masses of EASA licence applications were rejected in autumn 2012 with the reason "English level four expired" without anyone knowing they ever had an unexpired one.
Your licence will go to new format next time printed. Be careful not to use the phrase
ratings on the backlike you did above when you come to discussing your older style licence or you will end up confusing your ato/rf, as the same phrase on new licences would mean "requires CAA action and eighty-odd pounds extra to renew". Your section xii is not on the back, it is merely on another page.
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