....however your 747 type rating will do nicely as the dual flight ....
Not so, technically, as the clumsy piece of €urospeak states:
a class or type rating proficiency check or skill test in any other class or type of aeroplane.
It does
not say 'simulator'.....
I first asked the CAA to sort this out on 13 Aug 2012 and have raised it since at face-to-face meetings with CAA Head of Licensing and Training Standards on at least 2 occasions. I drafted a proposed amendment which was favourably received at the EASA part-FCL Partnership Group meeting and it has now gone to FCL.002. But they won't release the NPA until the end of the year, at the earliest.
The text of the proposed amendment reads:
‘Applicants shall be exempted from this flight if they have passed any other skill test, proficiency check or assessment of competence for the same category of aircraft.'
I'll give the CAA yet another nudge on Tuesday.....
