Once upon a time in 1965 the CAA does recognise Malaysian ATPL as all the exam papers were being marked in UK and they were well invigilated. Even British pilots sit for their exam in Malaysia knowing full well it will be recognized in Britain.
Then in 1974-1976 along come this M***** X**** from the DCA licencing who goes around collecting RM$1000-2000 to give away the question papers before the exam.
This infuriate the CAA as they found out that some of the answer papers were either copied straight from the Avigation notes or were copied from other candidates. From 1976 CAA stopped recognising the Malaysian ATPL.
During that time there were only 200 Malaysian pilots and only 25% really passed the British ATPL. After the leak in 1975 another 50% of their number got their ATPL. The remaining 25% only pass their ATPL after 1990 when the objective exams were introduced.
Around 1985 when pilot in MAS were about 300 there was another leak under X***** of licencing where they paid from RM$5000-10,000.
So in all you can say only 50 pilots (of the original 200) really pass through their hard work and sweat. Nearly a hundred just cheated and the remaining 50 passed the easier exams in the 90's some by using hand signals.
So you can say more than 1/2 of the senior pilots had no credibility. And they are now responsible for the Operation of MAS fleet. No wonder there are so many cock-up and corruption in Flight Operation.
[ 08 November 2001: Message edited by: Sick Squid ]