First Officer flies 13 years without license

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silverstrata:

MathFox:
Private jet, the issue is one of competence versus certification; I rather have a competent uncertified pilot in the driver seat than an incompetent certified one.

So you would be happy to wake up after an operation, and find out that your surgeon was actually a bricklayer - but that they were 'good with their hands'?

In this case it appeared that the "photographer" held a CPL once and got several months of type training... Would compare to a bricklayer that passed most of the exams in medical school.