Response to comment by BEagle - Not all CAA SRG FSO's get the frontal lobotomy as a part of the induction process. Often there is internal consultation where the occasional dissenting voices can be detected, often at the cost of promotion prospects. In particular the JAR-FCL process was hotly debated inside the grey walls with considerable weight given to the enormous cost increases implicit in the proposals. Nevertheless it went ahead - with considerable support from, perhaps, the leading GA representative body whose representation through IAOPA within the JAA system fully supported the inclusion of private aviation within the process when it could have been restricted to commercial aviation. Result is the awful mess we now find ourselves. just how many folk who come through the doors of your FTO's really have any ambition to progress beyond a PPL? Precious few I reckon apart from those limited number who see a vision of a highly remunerated career in the airlines and eventually find themselves up to their ears in debt or, even worse, just well paid bus drivers for the low cost airlines. Ah well - tempus fugit.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
