PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - QSP --> ATPL
Thread: QSP --> ATPL
View Single Post
Old 31st Mar 2016, 21:17
  #12 (permalink)  
BEagle
 
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Posts: 26,821
Received 271 Likes on 110 Posts
Before the previous LASORS military accreditation was in place, the absurdity of QSP accreditation meant that, on one occasion as a PPL examiner, I had to conduct an RTF theory exam for a military FJ pilot.

He was on exchange with the Luftwaffe and flew over from Germany to Brize Norton in his Tornado via airways, somehow managing to cope with the RT . His WSO had a coffee in the club room whilst he did the exam - which of course he passed. Cost? There and back in a Tornado plus a couple of bottles of Bitburger for yours truly.

But the LASORS accreditation was lost when 22Gp revised the agreement with the CAA, despite EASA having said that all existing accreditation could continue.... 22Gp then actually raised an internal briefing whinge asking people not to complain about this via social media....

The LASORS accreditation was a recruiting and retention incentive. As that no longer exists, is it any surprise that pilots aren't hanging around for their 2000TT, 1500 as PIC.....
BEagle is online now