Botswana CAA rumours
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Botswana CAA rumours
I just had an email reply from an operator in Botswana who told me to get a 206 endorsement or a GA 8 endorsement on my ICAO license because the Botswana civil aviation authority does not allow in house training any longer.
The new Botswana CAA regulations will only issue a validation based on the validity of your current ICAO license, make sure that your license and medical are valid for at least a year and that you are rated on at least a C206 or GA8. Once you have flown 500 hours under the Botswana regulations, you will be issued a Botswana license. Unfortunately ratings can no longer be done in house if the pilot only has a validation, only types endorsed on your previous license are validated by the CAA until they issue you with a complete CPL.
That being said how do you get an endorsement ? Just fly around in a hired 206 for 5 hours before coming to Botswana ? Does this mean the hours have to be logged in your home country and endorsed by a local CFI or designate? To me sounds like too many foreign pilots desperate to get work so they raise the bar, any of the other African countries like Namibia also so difficult to get a license?
The new Botswana CAA regulations will only issue a validation based on the validity of your current ICAO license, make sure that your license and medical are valid for at least a year and that you are rated on at least a C206 or GA8. Once you have flown 500 hours under the Botswana regulations, you will be issued a Botswana license. Unfortunately ratings can no longer be done in house if the pilot only has a validation, only types endorsed on your previous license are validated by the CAA until they issue you with a complete CPL.
That being said how do you get an endorsement ? Just fly around in a hired 206 for 5 hours before coming to Botswana ? Does this mean the hours have to be logged in your home country and endorsed by a local CFI or designate? To me sounds like too many foreign pilots desperate to get work so they raise the bar, any of the other African countries like Namibia also so difficult to get a license?
Last edited by dianed; 14th Jul 2013 at 23:07.
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While standing open to correction, back in the old days of the bright green licences, isn't the new type rating situation exactly what it was then?
Seem to remember turning up with a British ATPL, writing Botswana air law and receiving a Botswana ATPL accordingly, then putting an aircraft rating on a South African ATPL and having the rating transferred to the Botswana ATPL accordingly in turn. Glad to see that progress has been made and that the good old AB on the tail of Air Botswana still doesn't know whether it's going forward or backwards but generally up and down in no direction.
Seem to remember turning up with a British ATPL, writing Botswana air law and receiving a Botswana ATPL accordingly, then putting an aircraft rating on a South African ATPL and having the rating transferred to the Botswana ATPL accordingly in turn. Glad to see that progress has been made and that the good old AB on the tail of Air Botswana still doesn't know whether it's going forward or backwards but generally up and down in no direction.
Last edited by cavortingcheetah; 15th Jul 2013 at 08:02.
