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Old 29th Jun 2017, 23:47
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And (as a CPL) I reject the assertion that CPL's are inherently safer pilots than PPL. I'll take a 70 year old, current, experienced PPL over a spotty faced CPL mass produced by one of the major flight training organisations any day of the week.
But its not the "spotty faced" massed produced CPL's that are in the media having just crashed an aircraft in what looks at first glance to be another VFR into IFR accident. In fact the "spotty faced" CPLs are in the media but it is often because they have done a good job in getting themselves and their passengers safely on the ground after mechanical difficulty. It would seem that age and experience are not providing the sound decision making skills that would be expected. If Angel Flight don't want CASA to be making regulations then they probably need to be more active in assessing the pilots decision making skills. AF will probably need to have someone within the organisation having more oversight of individual operations when a flight is tasked and that would include being more involved in the flight planning. Its called operational control.
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