Hi!
Oh yea! What was HER name?
This occured in the early 1960s, and it was 100% male. They would not hire females, which led to the problem you are referring to above. If ALL the airlines would have always hired the best qualified applicants, there would not have been any preferential hiring at all.
I am flying overseas, and learning even more than I did about ICAO and how the rest of the world operates.
EVERYONE has a type rating, which I think is best. And I don't mean a crap FAA invented "FO Type Rating" to get around ICAO rules, to save money for all of their customers (upper management and owners of aviation organizations).
To fly commercially in Kenya, you need an oral and flight test for EVERY airplane that you earn money in. You need a checkout for a 172, and then a separate checkout for a 182, etc.
The -135/-125 crap, not to mention, Oh we're part -91, and we're going to make a lot of money as a private, non-commercial organization is the MOST crap of all!
Overseas, you have Commercial, and private. If you make so much as one dollar, it is Commercial, and all the regs apply. In other words, if you own the plane, and you fly it for fun, it is private (-91). If you, the owner, or the pilot, or the organization, earns money from that aircraft in ANY form, it is Commercial (-121). No part -91 charter, no part -91 subpart K (what the he!! is that, anyway?), no part -135, no part -125, etc., etc.
I have come to believe that ICAO standards are definitely better than FAA standards.
And, from what I have heard, in Europe, with the most experience required and the strictest standards for pilots, guess what?...they have the highest paid pilots!
The reason that American pilots are working overseas, is that the FAA has made it cheap to learn to fly here, in part by having easier standards and more lax regulation than other places.
cliff
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