he did his course in '05 and started signing 6 months after i think. Maybe a year and a half

Phony Eastern Captain
 

I actually flew with someone who had served under him. Said he was an unusually competent skipper! Apparently it only showed up at a ramp check when the inspector noticed that the typing on the certificate was hardly standard issue.
As for the level of experience, I once did a check ride with a new FO. On questioning his failure to perform he explained that it was because all his hours had been in the left seat. He didn't get the job.

Dot Office office of inspector general interesting link, note the action on 06-07-2001 "FAA impostor"
Maybe the next FAA guy conducting the ramp check is an Impostor ? (Just kidding)

http://www.oig.dot.gov/Room?subject=11

False Engineer
 

Grouter, I am not associated with QF nor have I ever been, but I have been reading all the threads on this subject with some interest and you appear to be one of the few who have read it right. We should agree then that there is a systemic failure in the QF L.A.M.E./Company Approval Tracking System (assuming they have one, it is mandatory). Lets hope they are addressing the problem through their Safety Management Sytems because there could be not just one missing slice of the cheese but also a very large hole in the remainder.
I happen to know that the regulator asertion "it is a one off" is not strictly true, it is out there in all professions, sometime a little more subtle and therefore very hard to pin down by a professional investigator let alone busy company managers. Fortunately many are picked by peers when a lack of competance is noted but in this case that person may well have been quite competent and continued unnoticed for years.
cheers
Flyker

This has also been running on the engineering forum.There was a recent case in the UK with a guy claiming to hold a licence certifying for 2 major operators.Turns out that he did have a licence a ppl!!!!!Appears that the UK caa (and EASA?) now issue one number per person and if you were to hold a PPL and a maintenance licence the only difference is suffix/prefix letters, the number would be the same.Apparently when found out he was quietly required to leave.Probably working somewhere else now.

So true!!!
 

I know someone who forged an electrical license in Western Australia to obtain employment on a mine site. He did this just for the money. Wasnt happy working ligitamitely fo r $45K had to lie to get a job paying $100K+.

After his lie became known to the company, they have kept him employed with the company despite putting the lives of many at risk of electricution etc.

In this economic crisis, when employees are being made redundant in the mining industry in Western Australia, this employer keeps a worker employed despite forging his qualifications with the electrical lisencing board in WA.

You have to wonder what other lies they have spun to get what they want in life.. They seriously need medical attention...