CAA's definition of EFATO

[IRRenewal]

Have a look in your 2005 flight examiner's handbook, glossary of terms in the front.

For those of you who don't have the handbook I'll post the CAA definition later.

[Another_CFI]

Not a problem in most light singles or twins. We dont have one!

Should we remove it from the syllabus?

[IRRenewal]

Okay then. According to the CAA handbook:

GPS - Ground Position System

and

EFATO - Engineer failure After Take-Off

It made the CAAFU axaminer laugh when I showed it to him. He said he was going to have it corrected.

[Keygrip]

If you are going to growl about typo's then maybe the CAAFU representative should have been called an "examiner" - unless they happen to fail a lot of people.

[IRRenewal]

Yep, fiar enuogh.

But calling an 'engine' an 'engineer' is not a typo. Neither is the GPS definition a typo.

[MizzFlyer]

No, they're both proof reading failures.

A common enough problem these days when they give A-level passes away with the cornflakes.

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[Keygrip]

I'd be interested to hear of a solution.

My guess is that the problem was caused by typists, who are not pilots, writing what they THINK it (probably) says.

Then, if it even gets a proof reading, the reader will read what they think it SHOULD say.

How many times have you written a document - read it, read it again, re-read it - then shown it to a colleague who spots 1500 mistakes?