Originally Posted by
olster
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.
And now i have student from 6 odd years ago, almost finished his PPL, but stopped.
I gave him the fatal advice to ask the CAA via email, what might be allowed, get it n black and white.
He had no reply from the CAA, so he phoned to be told they had one person dealing with 500 emails.
They couldn't give him an answer.