How dysfunctional is a system that only rewards months of hard work and over a hundred hours flown on turbine aircraft with a PPL? No disrespect to our PPL brethren but a JAR PPL(H) after DHFS, whilst a start, is in no way a reflection of the ability required to graduate DHFS.
A JAR PPL(H) is NOT a comparable qualification
someone obviously has a sense of humour
I appreciate that military pilots have to be rewarded and retained, but, IMHO those that graduate DHFS should be awarded accordingly and the award of a PPL does not even come close to recognising the standard of pilot that graduates DHFS.
The thought that the award of the PPL recognises the hard work to graduate the DHFS flying training program only insults and undermines DHFS's standing when its graduates are compared to PPL licence holders
A solution would be to simply adapt the ground school package and award DHFS graduates with a JAR CPL(H), frozen ATPL(H).
What next? Will graduates from Valley be awarded a PPL(A)!?!....