Originally Posted by
43Inches
It's very different, the person in this instance was a qualified Air Force instructor. Which for all intents is probably a higher qualification than a CASA FIR. Airline pilots are just pilots, and unless they were previous instructors have no experience in training and the problems associated with such. There is no part of a CPL or ATPL that covers training activities and methods of instruction.
As far as I know its still not a requirement to hold a FIR to be a training captain, although it's been constantly talked about for a while.
And why should being an Air Force Instructor automatically entitle you to being able to exercise all the privileges a CASA Approved Grade 1 Instructor can? No one is saying that Adam Clarke isn't an extremely qualified Pilot and Instructor in general, CASA is saying that they likely have knowledge gaps that need to be covered before being issued the qualifications sought. Let me ask you this, if Adam Clarke walked in off the street right now, seemingly having not flown a Pistol Single as a Civilian for a few decades, would you just throw them the keys to your C172 and let them have at it?
How about for once, instead of just jumping on the CASA hate train (That they admittedly deserve a lot of the time), we instead use some common sense and say that yeah, in this case just signing some paperwork (which is all that happened according to the case details) probably wasn't enough to satisfy that they're fully able to exercise all the rights and privileges that a Grade 1 would convey them?