Originally Posted by
alex90
Seriously....
Who on earth are we paying in order to come up with "new brand names" about SIMPLE things which are OBVIOUSLY NAMED!?
Qualifier Cross Country is simply... JUST THAT.
General Flying Test (GFT) (otherwise known as Skills Test) - again is simply... JUST THAT.
Why hide it with complicated names that DO NOT reflect what you're ACTUALLY doing!?
Who is being paid money to come up with such silly nonsense!? And WHERE is that money coming from!?
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious - faceless and nameless bureaucrats at Gatwick and / or EASA, and all of us who fly anything!
Well done Dougie - I did the same route, a few years ago, for my QXC - or whatever it's called now - only c**k up was that I had forgotten how the tune the 0.25 on the radio, which made talking to Scottish Info on 119.875 a bit tricky. After landing at Dundee and as the mind calmed down, I had the biggest 'DOH' moment of my flight training.