The whole global checking system is flawed, Disclosure Scotland..out of xxx years ago we had a Chinese cabin attendant, name you could not pronounce, lived in China most of her life but spoke good English. She applied to Disclosure using an "adopted name" in fact her course nick name, for instance "Jenny" Believe it or not she got a disclosure certificate even though "Jenny Fung " did not actually exist.. and she got a full airside pass. She then moved to XXX where Proteus did a full check..yep you guessed it..another pass. In her case she saw nothing wrong with "westernising" herself and was qualified to do the job and properly trained, however, the point is unless they have reason to look deeper they probably wont and where documents are in a strange script they wont translate them but rely on the application form. Companies only tend to dig back in history enough to rubber stamp the applications, allbeit aircrew or cabin crew and rely on the prima facie evidence, which, if " professionally" presented provides little clues to foul play. Of course, for flight crew, a good sim check or knowledge bank just serves to reinforce the story, and it is easy to see how these events occur and even easier to see how difficult they are to stop. Thankfully many authorities now issue letters of authentication for licence holders directly to prospective employers. Fake TRI?, even a genuine TRI can't sign a licence, has to be a TRE, however,if the "fake TRI" did sim sessions as part of a Type Rating course it would not count, summary, the course would have not complied and the rating would not be valid.
Last edited by Avenger; 14th Mar 2010 at 23:19.