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CAA's definition of EFATO

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Old 19th August 2005 | 08:35
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Talking CAA's definition of EFATO

Have a look in your 2005 flight examiner's handbook, glossary of terms in the front.

For those of you who don't have the handbook I'll post the CAA definition later.
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Old 19th August 2005 | 13:32
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Not a problem in most light singles or twins. We dont have one!

Should we remove it from the syllabus?
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Old 20th August 2005 | 05:33
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Okay then. According to the CAA handbook:

GPS - Ground Position System

and

EFATO - Engineer failure After Take-Off

It made the CAAFU axaminer laugh when I showed it to him. He said he was going to have it corrected.
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Old 20th August 2005 | 12:11
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If you are going to growl about typo's then maybe the CAAFU representative should have been called an "examiner" - unless they happen to fail a lot of people.
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Yep, fiar enuogh.

But calling an 'engine' an 'engineer' is not a typo. Neither is the GPS definition a typo.
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Old 21st August 2005 | 12:27
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No, they're both proof reading failures.

A common enough problem these days when they give A-level passes away with the cornflakes.

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Old 21st August 2005 | 12:46
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I'd be interested to hear of a solution.

My guess is that the problem was caused by typists, who are not pilots, writing what they THINK it (probably) says.

Then, if it even gets a proof reading, the reader will read what they think it SHOULD say.

How many times have you written a document - read it, read it again, re-read it - then shown it to a colleague who spots 1500 mistakes?
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