The CAA have unfortunately brought this ludicrous state of affairs upon themselves due to the ponderous, bureaucratic way they brought in this whole ICAO English thing in the first place.
One of the many reasons I gave up civil flying - being expected to prove, after 10000 hrs and 35 years of military and civil flying, 'O' level English language in 1965 and Use of English in 1967, that I could speak my mother tongue....
Arrant bŁoody nonsense!
I later asked whether we could make Level 6 assessments during the course of AOPA seminars; this was refused.....
