Was postioning to work today and whilst waiting for my airline and doing the usual trawl of the aviation publications in WH Smith i noticed an interesting article about a flying instructor in Pilot Magazine.
Basically there has been some sort of infringement of an ATZ (Panshanger i think) which was investigated by the CAA's enforcement department and not prosecuted. The instructor then got a letter from PLD telling him to stop instructing.
Now i'm at the FBO and bored so i thought i'd look into this abit more and found this
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http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/755/CAAPro...esJune2005.pdf
Although it is a 2005 link it is the most recent i can find, and In the licence action section it says
"Refusal, revocation, suspension or variation of a licence, certificate or approval may only be taken if the conduct of the person concerned is such that he does not meet the criteria for holding such a licence, certificate or approval."
This is just out of shear curiosity (honestly your honour) can PLD really just contact you and suspend your licence? Does this apply to ATPL holders who are flying commercially too if they mess up enough? Can't remember the outcome because i slept on the airline but what is going on, and why have PLD got involved?
Just shear curiosity (it wasn't me either i work for NJE!!!!)