Ask the Commissioner for the answer in writing.
I have to admit to being a bit amazed at this whole debate.
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Firstly there was a meeting on the 15th with the CAA inspectors.....a concensus was agreed upon........the 1900D needed an ATP captain.
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Adrian Lyions of testing standards then comes to Flight Op's and gives an instruction, (which in his own words in front of witnesses, came from the commissioner),to an inspector to notify certain operators, that the commissioner says, "to tell the operators to desist from operating the 1900D's with commercial pilots as captains with immediate effect".
Said inspector does as he is asked to.
Then there is a meeting with all (except the two that were thrown out of the meeting, because a certain testing standards inspector does not like them).
At the meeting, CAA argues amongst themselves to such an extent that Adrian Lyions is told to sit down and shut up by Blake Voster in front of all the amazed operators.
Then the operators are told that a mistake has been made and that the directive never came from the commissioner...........
Now, where my amazement comes in, has anyone actually spoken to the commissioner about the whole debacle.
No....not one operator has picked up the phone and asked the commissioner to give his view and to put it on paper.
Until that happens, the law is and always will be unclear.......just like the law that say that if you fly IFR, you have to have two crew...(not IMC...but IFR).
(and it makes no provision for an auto pilot instead of the second pilot)....so there you have another debate due to spelling mistakes in the law.
Part 121, says IMC.........Part 135, says IFR.
So the answer to the 1900D story......ask the commissioner to send you a letter with the answer.
Goffel....(in need of a real job).