Fuji
Where is your source for that? So you are saying that a PPL with the EIR will be allowed to fly the STAR onto an instrument approach and descend to SSA on that approach?
What happens then? He breaks off and causes chaos to all the inbound RyanAirs and EasyJets flying into Alicanted, Bilbao, Malaga etc.
Say said pilot is flying the procedure into Bilbao where there is a step down approach over very high ground he descends to SSA and nothing or even worse gets partially visual with scattered broken cloud below.
Doesnt sound very safe or practical to me.
There are 67000 FAA pilots in Europe! a lot with full FAA IRs flying perfectly safely in a safe invironment from take off to touchdown.
They are using a rating which is statistically equal to the JAA IR.
EASA the so called safety body could quite easely copy the FAA IR as are the french but they wont!!! Why? matters of safety?
To expect a PPL to be good enough to climb up through cloud navigate on Top and then to be abandoned to his own devices on a home made cloudbreak with NO possibility of getting accurate weather for that cloudbreak is lunacy.
IMO this is all a complete and ridiculous NON SENSE.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 23rd Sep 2011 at 11:32.