HLB - "So "you said it yourself" - get a CPL (I mean, it's ony a couple of exams isn't it?) and do the course."
- What course? I can walk in and to a flight test after completing my exams, I don't have to do a course.
...That'd be the Instructor rating course, Einstein.
Let me put this another way.
In 1996 I completed training as a Level 1 Ambulance Officer in WA and I was on the road with the Ambos for 12 months. I have many years experience in First Aid.
There is a shortage of Doctors in rural areas - by your logic, I should be able to work as a GP without holding a Medical degree, so long as I complete the Family Medical Practitioner registration program.
... Naturally, I couldn't do surgery, that's for a commercially trained medical practitioner
I say it again - I don't think you understand what you're advocating (and don't tell me again you're sitting on the fence. Funny how every time there is a thread here about lowering the standards, some people always come out in favour of it!
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