BEagle, yeah right?
So like a new instructor, I go to my first airline job. Now as I'm a professional pilot I don't need to be tested everytime I go flying, I know it all already. All I need is just a reval of my type rating in the first year and then go off never to be checked again. All because I know it all already and have nothing to learn from any further re-test. Yeah right. I don't think so some how!
Well I don't know what you guys do on the heavy metal at Brize, flying VC's et al but I bet you get tested every now and then as a professional? Am I right.
Come on Beagle, you don't surely think that once you have an instructor's ticket you become immortal? That is certainly the way I read your lines. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ta
If we are not going to be tested as instructors any more then I reckon they should up the requirements in the initial test and include the pilots attitude to aviation. Then we might just be left with the sort of guys that take pride in their qualifications and go seek advice when needed and take advice when given. Then there would be no need for testing. But hey, that's the ideal world and we all have to live to the lowest common dinominator. Get tested every now and then to get rid of the bad wood. And I might add, make us better at our job in the meantime.