You have absolutely no idea how bloody furious I am with the CAA having read the posting above.
Don't give us such s*** as to say "Read the website"...are we meant to read it every day??
The CAA lords itself over all the struugling students who are trying to gain licences...constantly moving the goal posts and then keeping the movements to themselves.
What bloody good would it have done to the foreign I/R holders if they had wanted to convert their ratings and read the site on January 29th????
I hate to even contemplate how many students have been ripped off for god knows how many hours of training that were not required - how many skill tests could have been completed when the weather was good enough...but maybe not quite enough to release someone on a qualifying cross country.
The Authority holds itself in such high regard as to criticise flying schools who are depserately trying to do things right, yet keep little secrets from the people that need to know it. They then have the temerity to talk about "duty of care to students". What crap.
They have the mailing address of every instructor and examiner in the entire training and testing system - yet vital information such as this is left to the merits of a "rumour network".
A couple of weeks ago I heard a statement suggesting that any instructor with over a thousand hours of instructional experience is a loser...if they were any good, they would have gone to an airline.
Tell me, what is the point of anyone trying to be a "student friendly, experienced instructor" if they are treated in such a way.
Especially aggravating as you now make them become airline quality - never mind air taxi - material before they may spend a few more thousand pounds on getting an instructor rating for the help of the students...it won't do them any good, will it?
Really, somebody tell me, what is the point....I'm seriously considering throwing away the whole JAA thing and going to find a commercial job in the USA.
Yours, p****d off
Bear Cub