Some while ago on a day when I was meandering away the time at DCA I fell into conversation with two or three chaps from up country western Africa. They all had British Coms. In those days these were little blue books. Mine was green. Now there all dark blue so there's no panache in being a different colour. How very boring! Anyway, these guys were all collecting what sounded like over the counter type validations in order that they could go to FALA and fly for an operator there whose fleet includes jets and whose hangars, or so I am told, intrudes upon the ILS on 06L (or whatever it's called these days.)
Work permits were for the birds as far as these interlopers were concerned.
Edited to add that I meant at the new CAA and fairly recently too.
Last edited by cavortingcheetah; 12th Nov 2014 at 16:02.