Blacksheep, Licences licences !
We have to have licences, to drive a car, or be a doctor or maintain an aircraft.
It is necesary and essential !
This thread (and you seem to be in agreement as do most others on the thread even DoctorA300) is trying to understand why we need to continually lower the standard.
In my 30+ years every change to the legislation has done exacly that!
DoctorA300 menions his 2 years working on aircraft before he started on licences and my experience is the same.
And yes Blacksheep I remember very well the shedule of work !! pages of it!
The thread on this forum headed "Orals dropped" just re-inforces all that is being said here !
I ran an FBO with 20+ guys and as blacksheep says some of these "licence" holders couldn't put the top on a sauce bottle without cross threading it.
Yes guys keep collecting the cornflake box tops or if you want to be really flash get degree in Croatian basket weaving as that is fully interchangable with all ICAO licences