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It's concerning that they have such a specific number of pilots with fake licenses. It's not like this is something surprising that they're rushing to respond t
by albntomat0 6y ago
It's concerning that they have such a specific number of pilots with fake licenses. It's not like this is something surprising that they're rushing to respond to, at least that's the impression I got from the article.
- not2b 6y agoIf the issue is that someone else is taking tests for the fakers, how do they know who's a faker? They could flag the obviously incompetent people for extra testing, and possibly some of them have been informed on, but how do they know precisely who is a faker? Some of the pilots have a military background (flew for the air force) so those can be presumed to be real pilots, but the rest?
- VBprogrammer 6y agoI hope against hope that when they say they don't have a licence we're talking about something less egregious than 'never had any formal training as a pilot'. Something like didn't bother getting a type rating for the specific aircraft type or failed to renew their licence at the correct point.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> If the issue is that someone else is taking tests for the fakers, how do they know who's a faker? I can only talk about what I've heard in India. 1) No test is done. An official with access to blanks just prints another one for $1,000. The govt. could match up tests with the complete list of pilots with authorized licenses and get an exact count. 2) An impostor does the written and practical (flying) tests. This is common in IT also.