Calibrating Pilot...who is this guy?
No idea how this fella managed to get on the committee.
First of all he apologises for being late to the meeting. Then he asks the question whether any of this entire debate has ever considered the flying task faced by calibration pilots.
The committee member seemed to be aluding to the fact that calibration pilots are the ones who make the multiple approaches into airfields and it is their data which is passed to airline pilots who just make the one approach. He painted the picture that calibration pilots make approaches all day long into a said airfield, constantly updating the commercial pilots in some technical "thumbs-up" way.
This individual got the completely wrong end of the stick and really took the discussion off into an unnecessary tangent.
I am not suggesting that calibration pilots don't have a difficult and demanding job, however, as correctly pointed out by the chap sat next to the UNITE fellow, calibration pilots fall under the category of aerial work rather than commercial aviation and therefore have not been considered in this discussion