consultants
These are the consultants at CAAP:
1. Those who are in the payroll of ICAO - these are qualified airline pilots(mostly retired) hired by ICAO to perform regular checks on local airline pilots. This was resorted to because there are no qualified organic pilots who can perform these task. It was discovered by FAA and ICAO that single engine Cessna- rated pilots are checking B747 and Airbus airline pilots for the past years. This is of course downright anomalous. This is one of the reasons why we were downgraded to Category 2. The pay of these consultants are way above Civil Service mandated pay. Their pay is taken from the ICAO budget which is also funded by our government.
2. TheICAO personnel (foreigners) themselves are consultants of CAAP hired to help upgrade the quality of service and operations of the Agency. They are here to assist CAAP in resolving the issues raised by FAA and ICAO in their previous audit which resulted in our downgrading to Category 2.
Organic pilots have resented these measures because in a way it has sidelined them and prevented them from enjoying the juicy travels and perdiems when they join the airline pilots in their recurrent training usually done in simulators in foreign countries. They were given the opportunity to get qualification training for the different aircraft being used by the airlines but they all failed in their training.
There is really a grave behavioural problem obtaining at the CAAP.
The complaints of our ICAO consultants is that their recommendations are not being adopted by the CAAP. Politics gets in the way sometimes especially when the subject targetted is an airline or flying school which is protected by a politician.
It is really a merry go round in this beloved country of ours.