Quote:
NOTE 1:
For these purposes a holder of a UK Examiner Certificate is any holder of a valid FE,
TRE, CRE, IRE, SFE or FIE certificate issued by the UK CAA.
Interesting, because that list does not include RTF Examiners who were the first people to be authorised to do this back in 2005!
RTF Examiners are mentioned - but in Section 4 and they can only assess by
conducting an RT Test.
Section 5 (which is the part I originaly missed) deals with those who have a License/FRTOL but might not have a current Language Proficiency recorded.
CAA probably assumed these people would not want to sit another RT Practical.
As Section 5 says Part-FCL.055 is acceptable then assessment by FEs, etc during (any) flight is acceptable - which removes the main reasons why I posted in the first instance.
Part-FCL.055 does not, however, say someone can be assessed by having a chat with them - and this might be the reason the Head of Licensing's quote has been removed.
But "normal checking...........License issue" is included so Examiners could interpret this very liberaly - as, according to some other Posters, the CAA themselves have been doing at the counter in Gatwick.
Since 17th September 2012 Part-FCL and CAP804 rule!
Learning to understand, interpret and apply them is difficult. Thank goodness for forums such as this which offer far more help than the CAA themselves.
However, apart from as a matter of historical interest, quoting anything dated
before 17/09/12 probably does not help.