Beags,
You've certainly hit on an interesting anomalie with the BBC and insurance. At Old Warden's 17th December show, a presenter from the World Service interviewed me and others. The plan was to take her up in the Tiger Moth and make it part of the presentation - she had a PPL and flew a permit arcraft as a hobby, so there shouldn't have been any problems.
Hooooweveeeeerrrrrr, the BBC wouldn't accept any of the Shutleworth pilots as fit persons to fly one of their staff. It seems that being a test pilot for a major UK Company, a commercial pilot, an instructor pilot, or ex-RAF aircrew is just not good enough anymore. As some of the Shutleworth pilot's work for the airlines, how do they reconcile that? In fact, the same pilot's may have flown JC.......
And before everyone gets too verbal about my 'fighter pilot' comments above, they were meant as a light hearted input to a light hearted thread, lets keep it at that level, please.
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