Aluminium Shuffler
So a fake CAA with genuine licences is better than a sloppy CAA with fake licenses?
IMHO any CAA without employee representation (not the ability to form union, so save your keystrokes, but the ability to express themselves freely to the oversight authority) shouldn't even be rated by ICAO. So GCAA is like a NR movie, no one knows it is safe or not.
ICAO was formed when aviation was mostly state owned and an elite industry and all aviation employees were well represented. But who thought slavery will make its way to modern day aviation.
What does ICAO audit? CAA's documentation. Going by the quality of English it probably copied from the best in the world, hence the 99% score. Nothing to do with reality on the ground.
With ONE major airport and 20 miles of airspace, what makes them experts in overseeing complex aviation systems?
UAE almost became head of ICAO, that was cringe worthy moment for world aviation.
Couple of years back United pilots complained to FAA on FTL exceptions, FAA fined UA last year. Does it make the system unsafe, no it makes system open and safe. That is how democracies handle issues, by discussing publicly.
Similarly AI crew gave written complaints to their CAA almost everyday about AI's Australian tag flights. Both CAA and Airline couldn't take anymore and dropped the tags.
How many times EK pilots successful got GCAA rule against EK?