Makeithappencaptain: I understand what you are saying here:
And Kiwis chasing Aussie jobs (which seems to be all of you at some stage of your careers...why don't we just save the hassle and make it the eighth state?
) don't list your hours in two decimal places, we only use one and we have an endorsement that covers (most) single engine pistons below 5700kg.
Do not list endorsements on C150, C152, C172, C172RG, C182, C182RG, C206, C210, PA38, PA28, PA28R, PA32, PA32R etc etc etc as it shows complete ignorance of the licensing system in the country you want to work in.
and can sympathise with you to a certain extent.
However, as someone who a few years back came to this country for work, I can see both sides to your argument.
If someone states on their resume that they hold a NZCAA Commercial licence with ratings (they're called ratings over there) on x, y, z aircraft, then I dont see how that is a problem? In fact for an employer here, provided some of those aircraft types were in your fleet, that would surely be an advantage. As rather than just having flown the aircraft, it means the applicant has also done an engineering paper, and done proper conversion training on the aircraft, so they should have a pretty reasonable grasp of the idiosyncrasies of the type. Yes, I know light singles arent that complex, but to a 220hr pilot its all new and exciting.
When I came to this country, I didnt even hold an Australian licence, I merely had an approval from CASA to operate Australian registered aircraft. And its very easy to say "learn the rules of the country you are trying to obtain a job in" but when applying to get a CASA licence through the TTMRA conversion, there was no mention that Australia is ICAO, but only kind of, cos whe have our own bastardized version. There is no requirement to sit a law exam, but I think the problem here is in the legislation, maybe it should be made mandatory?
If a pilot is writing that they hold a CASA CPL with endorsements on C152, C172, etc etc, by all means, tell them to sort that **** out tho!! All I will say is, I was very surprised when I got here to find how different the rules and regs are here!!!
For the record, several years and a few thousand hours later, I still have on my resume that I hold a NZCPL with ratings on about 23 different aircraft types, then under that I write that I hold a CASA CPL with my endorsements written accordingly (ie retrac, csu, tailwheel etc) and I have never been turned down for a job yet.