Some confusion arises even now with people who think a GFPT is the same as an RPPL. A GFPT is not some kind of "licence". A GFPT is simply a flight test that when passed allows a student pilot to carry passengers and go for extended periods between check rides compared to a student pilot who doesn't have one.
A student pilot with or without GFPT requires "permission" from an instructor to go flying, and it is up to that instructor to ensure that the weather, among other things, is suitable, and that permission would normally be verified with a signature authorisation as per the ops manual. If the student pilot becomes a smoking hole, that instructor would be just as responsible as if it were the student pilot's first solo.
Whenever we have operated from remote bases we have had to submit to CASA for approval ops manual amedndments, maps with designated training areas, have all the facilites required for a training school, have an instructor on-site whenever student pilots are flying etc. There is none of this set up where YPJT is.
YPJT holds a CPL but is not a flying instructor and not working in capacity of pilot or under any AOC at this time. This student pilot has come out of woop woop and wanted him to sign the MR, which of course he,or anyone else with the appropriate qualifications can. But my advice is to steer well clear of this situation because if it goes wrong, the instructor who gave the permission is a couple of thousand k's away, then a clever insurance company lawyer could try and hold YPJT partly responsible.
Tell the bloke to get his navs done then he can fly whenever and wherever he likes!
Edited because I can't spell today
