Captain Spud
'Bad call choosing JAA and getting through as opposed to sticking with CAA and not'…warped logic there old son!!!
'Ja' makes the point that missing the deadlines and losing your credits are not the same thing, …they are very much the same thing.
The CAA set deadlines for the last sittings. Not only did some people miss those but missed a further TWO extensions.
To still be under the old system you would have to have started around TWO YEARS ago!
Now I know there are the arguments about other commitments, jobs etc but this is not a part-time flower arranging course you are on here. Commitment is what it is all about. If you could not give that level of time and commitment for whatever valid reason, you should NOT have taken on what is one of the most demanding, expensive, time consuming, unfair vocational commitments known to man!
For the record, the JAR system is even MORE unfair. If you have 13 passes and fail one subject, like Air Law on your last attempt by 1%, you lose ALL 13! AND, you only have 18 months from your first pass (even 1 subject) to get the lot, so not much difference eh? At least under the old system you would keep your partial pass.
Remember also that because the CAA dived feet first into JAR early on. We are well and truly in it. The CAA do not have the ability to change policy in isolation, and any changes would take forever. What’s more you could not commute your CAA passes to the new system, as the subjects do not have an exact exam match.
Now whingeing and calling the CAA all the names under the sun will solve nothing.
It has been my experience that the CAA are in fact reasonable people..if treated as such. What will not work is complaining about a system which is pretty well cast in stone. Don’t give them problems (yours), give them solutions…a way out.
Now if you have been unable to sit exams due to ill health etc then I am sure you have a case. If you have just missed the well-publicised deadlines because you were too busy with other commitments, then you are probably stuffed.
Why not suggest that an emergency last sitting be set up within the next 6 weeks in one location as a final last chance clean up.
Sadly I suspect that if the CAA did this, we would still hear that ‘the date didn’t suit’, ‘the location didn’t suit’ or ‘but I only failed by 1% can I have another go?’ etc.
It’s 100% guys and it doesn’t get any easier. There’s a deadline on your CPL & IR as well!, when you miss it are you going to be back here moaning that that’s not fair?
You are in a rotten situation but…
[This message has been edited by clear prop!!! (edited 22 June 2001).]