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Old 15th Dec 2010, 15:16
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Would this then be good news for FTO instructors perhaps then? Who under EASA could operate at multiple FTOs without having to have permission from the CAA?
In such a case it becomes almost impossible to monitor if an instructor is complying with working hour and rest limitations. Would it be good for the student if his instructor, who has been working in a STD all night at School A, before turning up for the eight o'clock lesson at school B, where he works all day, before going to school C to do some night flying. 3 separate logbooks, who would know? It is not unknown for a dual qualified FAA/JAA Instructor to reach his JAA maximum hours, and then go off and conduct FAA instruction.

Most of the UK requirements are there because someone at some time in the past has been doing exactly that, and the regulator had to make provisions to prescribe minimum acceptable standards for training to ensure that it is conducted professionally and safely. EASA is not a Regulator as such, it is a Bureaucratic Rule Maker with minimal knowledge of what it is doing.

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