The experienced instructor who laments the $12000 p.a. costs of keeping all her approvals current will have little choice but to pass on those costs to her students. Somehow the students will find the money - if there are enough of them. If there are not, she would appear to have the choice of letting some approvals go, or copping a loss. Good experience going to waste. CASA needs to think about that.
Also, how many additional testing officers will CASA need to put on payroll to process all these approvals? Where will suitably experienced people be sourced from, if not the industry itself? CASA needs to think about that.
If they can't get enough people to do a proper job, those who do it will either be overloaded, or cut corners, or approvals will lapse. CASA needs to think about that.
Surely, if someone holds a Flight Examiner Rating to examine examiners, only two tests would be required in a two year cycle. One to determine the person's own flying ability in their most complex aircraft and another to determine on a random or cyclic basis that they still know how to properly conduct tests, possibly at the other end of the scale - such as a Grade Three Instructor being upgraded to a Two, or maybe a Night VFR test. Everything in between should be automatically included. You wouldn't test a brain surgeon in his ability to insert stitches.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 23rd Oct 2013 at 22:54.