Point taken, but I was suggesting that whilst I agree the MOD don't issue the licences themselves they do however decide with the CAA, the issuing authority, what requirements have to be met for the issue of said licence, so I suppose one could argue that the MOD are as much responsible for the issue of civilian licences to military or ex-military pilots under the accreditation scheme?
As for hours flown, isn't the JAR CPL(H) issued with most licence holders only having a couple of hundred hours? So where, and again if true but as this is a rumour network so please indulge me, does the MOD decide on an hour requirement of 750 for the award of a CPL to post DHFS pilots? And then ATPL for A2 QHI's!!! On what basis are other pilots, possibly more experienced less deserving of an ATPL? Or is this a tactic to encourage more QHI's applicants
