It's an example of absurd stupidity.
ACR ok, why put it down at all, you can have PPL, CPL or ATPL
every man and his dog from pole to pole knows what that is.
Then there is SE and ME and even kids would figure that out.
When it gets to Instructor, well is a Flight Instructor (FI) of what, balloons, helicopters, airplanes? FIB FIH FIA, then a number for the grade.
IFR is either SE or ME , if its a "co-pilot" then that should be the limitation by the Type Rating, with a currency requirement that's obvious.
My US licence as big as a plastic credit card,
My Canadian apparently impresses CASA boffins, they are apparently thinking of copying the Canadian Passport Style "Aviation Document" but
I'll bet they can't keep it along the same lines and will botch it up.
What is amazing is CASA cannot get the idea of keeping it simple or using standardized expressions and simple language.
Its an obvious culture of making work that absent the Industry jumping up and down, it is on track of slowly destroying Aviation as an economic asset in Australia.
It needs an incredible shake up from top to bottom.
The reality is the present escalating costs and inefficiencies are unsustainable and self destructive.
The Australian industry needs to take careful note of what the similar bureaucratic stunts being pulled in other countries that
is also slowly sucking the blood out of the industry.