@itsbrokenagain: maybe thats coz no one else has gotten around to reading it
including training departments it seems. 1000 hours on commercial planes and an SIC has to do ONLY 15 SLFs while anyone with less than that has to do 30 SLF to be cleared to fly as SIC.. only once it becomes effective in Sept and Operators are found guilty of non compliance will maybe someone realize what a ridiculous document that really is. as if its not tough enough to find Instructors, the clowns have taken it one step further with ABSOLUTELY no increment in safety/training/operations or logic
whats your take on the route competency checks for PICs in the same CAR? how in the world will any NSOP get his PICs trained on every possible "route" one wonders. what if the boss decides to go from Mysore to Pondicherry? or Bangalore to Chandigarh?
"Sorry chief we cant do it coz no one flies on that route and we have never flown it soooo we cant even carry an observer."
On second thoughts maybe we could carry a flight school trainee for the Mysore-Pondicherry leg as observer to advise us of the traps in the route!
The rules have yet again been crafted with airlines in the mind and been forced down the throat of Non Schedule Operators by the geniuses working at Safdarjung..