Originally Posted by
Okihara
This is my mileage (first personal experience) with CASA:
– 40 days to get my medical certificate (that flu that pinned me to my bed for 2 days a few years ago must have given them a lot of hesitation).
– 45 days to get my licence (actually, 52 days after the flight test).
– No reply yet to my complaint that the 40 days it took for my medical certificate to arrive have not be added to its expiry date.
Doesn't sound promising, does it?
I think I have actually gotten to the bottom of it. The clauses relating simulator and ftd levels to approved credits used to be in CAR 5 and CAO 45. It appears that in the transition to the new CASR those clauses were dropped and replaced with part 141 and 142 that now ask that the operator to propose how their simulators & ftds are to be used and that CASA will then approve or reject the proposal.
Given that is how the rules are now written I will just go with the flow and write the proposal as I see fit and see how we go.