A South African licence issued to a pilot to enable him to fly a South African registered aircraft outside South Africa but not within South Africa itself is duplicitous in the extreme.
Presumably European, American and other CAAs are entitled to expect that all South African registered aircraft flying within their respective airspaces are being flown by a crew of uniform South African licence standard which has, to some extent at any rate, been approved by ICAO?
This is a vastly different, and potentially much more dangerous situation from that in which a pilot obtains a watered down South African ATPL, then obtains a Bongoland validation and flies one of their aircraft into LHR or JFK, when everyone can see him coming anyway.
Does SAA allow such open book rated pilots to fly its aircraft once outside the Republic's borders so that they can hone their skills on an unsuspecting world?. All change seats at the Limpopo! Bring on the second division!?
