Originally Posted by
dr dre
But it’s hardly “ab initio” (from the beginning). Students are sent solo, and are trained to a standard (
stats show a rough 20% failure rate at BFTS) in things like aerobatics, IF, VFR Nav and night flying. To a point the CASA and the AAT are satisfied the student pilots in question were too advanced to be considered “ab initio” (which would’ve been training up to RPL standard or GFPT as it was known in the day).
I literally said it wasn't ab initio in my original comment - you even quoted it.
What isn't accurate is to suggest (not you, the AAT) that every student taught by the applicant had 200 hours - that isn't correct.