Flying Lawyer wrote:
airpolice
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how on earth do they have a situation where you can be "approved" just because a guy at the CAA knows you?
That is a distortion of what the CAA said.
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‘Currently a FDD is assessed on the basis of the personal knowledge of the CAA’s Flight Display Inspector about the individual, his competence and capabilities and any other specific intelligence from prior activities.
So, I'll re-word my entry, as follows:
just because a guy at the CAA thinks you are up to the job?
Quite apart from looking shoddy, such an arrangement is doing no favours for the FDD. Should the CAA man move on and be replaced mid season with a stranger, what chance is there of the FDD getting another authority?
Look at the course content for the ATPL exams that youngsters are required to pass, some with little relevance to what they will be doing, and now we find there is not a clearly defined yardstick for FDD.