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Old 7th Feb 2014, 07:13
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FL, I really cannot be so dismissive of the pilots' 'paperwork'.

The deliberate falsification of continuation training, instrument flying and instrument approach records is a wholly different matter to mere forgetfulness.

It's the difference between forgetting to submit your income tax return (Jack Swigert, Apollo 13) and making a false declaration.

In PPL terms, it's the difference between forgetting to get your Class Rating revalidation signed by the due date and deliberately 'Parker penning' the necessary hours to revalidate by experience.....

If, as seems likely from the SI, there was a culture amongst RAFAT to consider such lying and cheating normal, then that to my mind indicates a cavalier attitude towards operations in general. Which is reinforced by the wholly pointless abbreviated 'timeline' from brief to take-off and the non-adherance to mandatory Hawk FRC procedures.
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