Originally Posted by robin
They want UK PPL holders to demonstrate radnav skills or else we get an NPPL
I've always wondered why people involved in aviation are so tired of demonstrating minimum skill every year or two? What do you have to loose by booking a flight with examiner and demonstrate
basic radio-nav skills? I'm pretty sure you can renew SEP rating in the same flight and since you don't have to convert your license for two more years, I'm positive your current SEP will lapse by then and therefore you would have to renew it anyway. And I really can't see how any flight with an examiner would have anything but positive effect on the examinee's part?
In my opinion, national licences should be withdrawn (when EASA Part-FCL comes into effect), since they only add to the confusion. Isn't it more simple to have one standards, one sets of rules and one licence (say JAA/EASA) so that everyone flying in the airspace we all fly in is subjected (in theory of course) to the same minimum flight safety standards? Or are you so emotionaly attached to your old licence and unable to accept any kind of development?