Question for the panel:
To be considered for an IFR examiner rating, CASA requires Flight Examiners to have:
- 500 hours of IFR Instruction
- 100 hour of logged IFR, of which a significant portion can be in a Synthetic trainer.
Personally I believe this is a very low level of REAL WORLD experience, balanced by "fairy land" experience inside a flying school environment.
Several very experienced Chief Pilots/CFIs with FE Ratings have been knocked back on IFR examiner endorsements lately because they don't have the IFR training experience.
They do, however, significantly exceed the REAL WORLD experience requirements and already have years of experience training pilots to operate IFR, assessing their skills and then unleashing them on the unsuspecting public.
CASA will not consider this experience as a valid equivalent.
Is 500 hours of teaching Bloggs how to fly ADF holds relevant to holding IF testing privileges?
Discuss.