Originally Posted by
BigEndBob
After 40 years in aviation and 30 odd instructing, 20 as PPL examiner, i'm just about fed up of flying and all the ridiculous requirements the authorities come up with.
What a complete mess with various licences, medicals, total disregard for any previous experience.
I have a chap at the moment with some 15 hours experience with UAS, but for now i have said let's complete the PPL syllabus and then find out what the latest is regards his experience and then make up the short fall. Even if it's just supervised solo.
I completely agree with you Bob. My son flew 95 hours UAS. His hours count for nothing towards a civilian licence. It is truly Alice in Wonderland stuff rubber stamped by half baked bureaucracy underpinned by a disinterested and useless regulator that pays its chief exec 800k per year. A minister for Aviation equally unacquainted with flying and in line with most of her political colleagues in terms of lack of competence. There you go.