Licence falling apart :mad:
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Licence falling apart :-(
Bah - after a period of being increasing tatty, the cover of my UK CPL has now completely detached. It's only 18 months old as well.
Does anyone know if the CAA are able to provide replacement ones, or do they charge some extortionate fee for them?
Alternatively, are there any pilot shops out there that sell nice looking licence covers, rather than these manky blue plastic official ones?
Does anyone know if the CAA are able to provide replacement ones, or do they charge some extortionate fee for them?
Alternatively, are there any pilot shops out there that sell nice looking licence covers, rather than these manky blue plastic official ones?
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Licence covers
AFE do them, so do Transair.
About £15 - check out www.transair.co.uk and www.afeonline.com for colours
About £15 - check out www.transair.co.uk and www.afeonline.com for colours
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Hell Luke what ya expect for a couple hundred pounds?
Mine fell apart after only 6 months!
We are talking about the CAA here, but why on earth anyone would want to pay £15 quid for a cover beats me!
Sticky tape mate.......
Mine fell apart after only 6 months!
We are talking about the CAA here, but why on earth anyone would want to pay £15 quid for a cover beats me!
Sticky tape mate.......
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Yeah that's the annoying part ... it fell apart when I got it off the shelf for the first time this year! It sort of cracked rather than tore ... I think it must have been designed for UK conditions, and all the sunlight down here was too much for it 
Anyway I'm good - doing a brief spell back in the mother country flying Seneca and Navajo on air ambulance ops while Mrs-SkyToddler-to-be does a bit of hour building and sorts out the ATPLs. Returning to the frozen north after the wedding (in Feb) and just as soon as those inconsiderate pommie airlines resume recruiting in numbers. And yourself? ... I didn't know you still frequented the hallowed halls of 'wannabes' ... I hope you're not getting bored with non stop aerobatics, and looking for a nice little London based airline job, or anything
Anyway I'm good - doing a brief spell back in the mother country flying Seneca and Navajo on air ambulance ops while Mrs-SkyToddler-to-be does a bit of hour building and sorts out the ATPLs. Returning to the frozen north after the wedding (in Feb) and just as soon as those inconsiderate pommie airlines resume recruiting in numbers. And yourself? ... I didn't know you still frequented the hallowed halls of 'wannabes' ... I hope you're not getting bored with non stop aerobatics, and looking for a nice little London based airline job, or anything
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When you consider the OUTRAGEOUS amount the CAA charges for licence issue - after already paying well over the odds for a test fee, you'd expect at least a quality leather bound licence holder instead of the standard issue eastern block style jobbie we get now.
Perhaps the CAA motto goes: do your best to make an expensive business more so!
Perhaps the CAA motto goes: do your best to make an expensive business more so!
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If you're going down that road Gin, for the price we pay I would expect it hand delivered by a scantily clad godess on a silver platter. But then I just look at the cars parked on the front row at the Belgrano and reality kicks in
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Amen to that Tinker ... wonder whose the Merc SLK is ... it used to really p!ss me off, walking past that thing en route to sit another 1000 quids worth of compulsory ATPL papers 
LST - falling apart? You're obviously bringing it out of your briefcase to read it too often! Mine comes out once every six months (old git's medical time) and is still pristine!
