Quality endorsement and regular check and training pays dividends! Endorsements? You get what you pay for! . .. .I recall a CASA FOI with less than 2 hours total on the C208B, decided on a Chief Pilot "check ride" and pulled the engine at 300 feet AGL off RW 08 at Horn Island, without warning. . .. .Fortunately, the Chief Pilot was a very competant and experienced young man and saved what could have been a totally disasterous situation...... .. .That young man has now gone on to bigger and better things. I won't comment on the FOI, but presumably he can continue to create mayhem at his NSW CASA base........ .. .Pay peanuts for an endorsement and you get flying monkeys.. .. .I wish to emphasise I am not commenting on the qualifications of the pilot of VH-SKC, simply commenting on the quality of some Aussie type endorsements.. .. . <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="rolleyes.gif" />