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BEagle · 14th May 2008, 05:10

A CAA Class 2 medical was all that was needed for the R/BCPL for paid instruction.

When the CAA rushed to embrace JAR-FCL in its indecent haste, they made the following changes without any consultation:

To instruct as a R/BCPL/FI you needed a JAA Class 1, not a CAA Class 2. Vastly more expensive and impossible for some FIs to achieve. When I asked the CAA about this, they merely said that they'd made the change 'because it was easier to have one system of medicals with 2 levels than another system with 3'. When I pointed out that the CAA Class 2 still existed for balloonists, the person I asked moved on to another topic....

The CAA also doubled the cost of maintaining the R/BCPL by reducing the validity period from 10 to 5 years 'to bring it in line'....

Now they are prepared to see it disappear altogether under the madness that is EASA Part FCL.

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BEagle Join Date: May 1999 Location: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England' Posts: 20,315	A CAA Class 2 medical was all that was needed for the R/BCPL for paid instruction. When the CAA rushed to embrace JAR-FCL in its indecent haste, they made the following changes without any consultation: To instruct as a R/BCPL/FI you needed a JAA Class 1, not a CAA Class 2. Vastly more expensive and impossible for some FIs to achieve. When I asked the CAA about this, they merely said that they'd made the change 'because it was easier to have one system of medicals with 2 levels than another system with 3'. When I pointed out that the CAA Class 2 still existed for balloonists, the person I asked moved on to another topic.... The CAA also doubled the cost of maintaining the R/BCPL by reducing the validity period from 10 to 5 years 'to bring it in line'.... Now they are prepared to see it disappear altogether under the madness that is EASA Part FCL.