graduates who’d never been near an aircraft.
That sadly is how the world is going, the CAA is now riddled with them, even the head of the CAA..
Dame Deirdre Hutton (Chair)
Dame Deirdre Hutton was appointed to the CAA Board as a Non-Executive Board Member in April 2009 and took up the position of Chair of the CAA in August 2009. Dame Deirdre was previously Chair of the Food Standards Agency, Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, Honorary Vice-President of the Trading Standards Institute, and serves as a Non-Executive member of the HM Treasury Board. She has been Vice-Chair of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board, Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Authority, Chair of the National Consumer Council, Chair of the Scottish Consumer Council, and a member of the Better Regulation Task Force. She has also held a number of positions on a variety of bodies dealing with food issues.
Read the letter from the Secretary of State for Transport to Dame Deirdre stating the CAA's priorities
Great, probably got the best canteen in the CAA, but not exactly aviation savvy.
The junk you get published by them is unreal, they did a licence guidance booklet and the two examples listed for a multi piston engine pressurised aircraft group were a turboprop and a biz jet !
And you get surveyors coming out to look at aircraft that have degrees but have never worked or operated one... Nice to see we are in the same boat.
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