Originally Posted by
pilotchute
Totally agree havick. Just because CASA make you do a bunch of mostly irrelevant and outdated exams doesn't make its pilots any better. You also point out that outside Australia a CASA licence is pretty useless.
If the FAA ATP is such a poor licence why aren't all the planes flown by FAA ATP holders falling from the sky?
I’m not suggesting that one license is superior than another. My 2c is that the CASA written tests take more effort, whereas perhaps up until the recent CASA part61 introduction, the FAA ATP was more difficult to obtain from a aeronautical experience and flight test perspective.
In my experience the FAA license is more widely accepted by the rest of the world than a CASA license.
All moot points as this is a Virgin Australia recruitment thread. Simply backing up what a previous poster pointed out.