CAA bends aircraft
I believe you are right the Department of Aviation (to right them the correct title for the day) did bend CLX doing the certification flights. How they could do that is hard to beleive as the old Riley Heron was a very forgiving aircraft.
The current CASA at Bankstown use to have an FOI that had to be endorsed onto a Heron Airlines aircraft.
Anyone that has flown the type will know that taxiing them is an art, usually a pilot with around 2,000 hours TT could master it with about an hour on the ground. Poor old aircraft had differential braking for steering plus a very long wing which took some getting use to.
Anyway this particular FOI took 8 hours of ground handling to master the ground taxiing role. He then went on to get a first class endorsement with the training captain feeling very uncomfortable allowing the final command endorsement.
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