The CAA
If any of you guys have read the new notices you will have you seen that the oral exam is now going to be axed when you do a JAR licence.
Long gone are the three hour orals for one basic ticket, young eng`s are coming out of college as it is with the full spread of licences after passing exams and a two hour oral.
The question has to be asked,Is this a very clever plan by the companies especialy the very big one! that seem to have the ear of the CAA, to lower the standard of the aircraft engineer , so allowing more people into the industry and so keeping the wages down.
Since I took my first licence 16 years ago the CAA seem to have become more intersted in making money for themselves rather than over seeing a good engineering base for the airlines of the UK. Our licences had a mark of respect above most, but will it have this when it becomes compareable with some of the rest of the european licences is this not what a JAR Licence will do?
where will it stop??????