It is a requirement under the CAOs that an instructor must have done a standardisation check in the last twelve months with the CFI, and any student being trained solely by a Grade Three must also fly with a grade one or two at least every three months.
If this isn't being enforced then it is a CASA problem.
By the way most FOIs I know are ex military so have come through a completely different system to GA. Is that a good thing? What does it matter as long as they do their job well and fairly, which I reckon they do.
The appalling standards is very evident here when the tower closes and it becomes an MBZ. Many pilots are either totally unaware of correct procedures, or just don't care. We have had to stop student pilots with and without GFPT flying solo outside tower hours because it is unsafe... It's not just the pilots who turn against the circuit direction after take off, and who come screaming down to join the circuit (often on the wrong side) on base, or just cut in front of you on downwind; but the ones who line up in the face of opposite direction landing aircraft,forcing them to go around even though they have right of way, because it is too far to bother to taxi to the hold of the runway in use, and numerous other examples. If the FOIs would like to stay back for a couple of hours and watch the mess from 6pm onwards it would be good, then maybe something could be done. But at the moment it is anarchy!! And much of this is because of this "cancer".
Who taught these people that it's OK to display a total lack of airmanship and sfety awareness? These things can only be learned BY EXAMPLE.
It's the same callsigns, over and over again....
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