Aquaplaner,
So which one is it going to be. A company either operates under the banner of a 217 training organisation or it does not. It cannnot for convenience turn it on and off. And to be honest I don't put a lot of faith in your argument. This business of "outside the CAR217 organisation" doesn't hold a lot of water for mine. Care to qualify that?
And this little pearl,
An FO, with a CPL, who is “cleared to line”, can log ICUS for the purpose of accruing the hours required for the issue of an ATPL outside of the CAR 217 organisation as he/she is not undergoing training.
Sorry but thats just a false statement. I'm happy to eat my words. But mate you just can't go making statements like this without backing them up with reference to CAO/CAR. We don't do command practice in this country and ICUS is conducted from the left seat with a suitably qualified Training Captain in the right....PERIOD. With those parameters met then yes, log the flight in the ICUS column. But that is the only circumstance that will allow it.
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