Shagtastic,
Bitter – yes. Bitter that the UK CAA’s pilot licensing process is used to implement policies that are unrelated to flight safety. It is my belief that a pilot licensing process should be for the sole purpose of enhancing flight safety by ensuring that those entering the industry possess at least a certain a minimum level of knowledge, skill and experience. It is also my belief that there should be a truly global pilot license that would allow a professional pilot to fly an aircraft in commercial service irrespective of which ICAO member state the aircraft is registered in, and that immigration and international mobility of labour issues should be the domain of immigration departments – not aviation safety regulators.
An insult to expatriate Australian pilots? Hardly! Quite the opposite, I suggest.
BTW – who are you calling
“antipodeans”?
“Antipodes” is a relative term, not an absolute one. From the perspective of an ozmate it is the poms that are the
“antipodeans”.
