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Old 29th Jan 2005, 12:45
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Triadic. Obviously the RFDS are looking for someone who they perceive is the Right Stuff by their standards - especially administrative experience.. No problem there. Just seems that they have already asked for 8 multi-engine renewals - so what is the point of requiring 600 instrument flight hours when it is not possible to verify those hours in the first place.

I know of airline pilots who stick 30 minutes of I/F in the daily flight record sheet just to keep the CASA auditors happy even though there is not a cloud in the sky and the aircraft is on Vnav and Lnav. In other words no way can it be verified as true.

. The original principle of instrument flight hours being a hands on requirement and therefore a rough measurement of a pilot's hands on experience in cloud, was made completely irrelevant when autopilot time spent reading a newspaper or eating lunch on a tray was legally approved by ICAO/ CASA as perfectly acceptable to log as instrument flight time. In other words the logging of instrument flight time by today's rules means it's not worth a pinch of salt by original standards. RFDS are merely perpetuating the myth by requiring unverifyable instrument hours.
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