{"id":22,"date":"2006-10-16T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-10-16T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T16:02:00","slug":"australias-opposition-seeks-inquiry-into-pilot-licence-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2006\/10\/australias-opposition-seeks-inquiry-into-pilot-licence-proposals.html","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#039;s Opposition seeks inquiry into pilot licence proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >T<\/span>he Federal Opposition has called for a Senate inquiry into a new type of pilot&#8217;s licence.<br \/>The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is considering using a new licence for co-pilots, including those on jumbo jets.<br \/>Labor&#8217;s transport spokesman Kerry O&#8217;Brien says the licence requires a minimum of only 10 hours flying.<br \/>Senator Eric Abetz, representing the Transport Minister, told the Senate the Government will not do anything that will compromise safety.<br \/>CASA says co-pilots of large passenger jets can learn more from using 747 flight simulators than flying solo in single engine planes.<br \/>Peter Somerville, from the Australian and International Pilots Association, says he is worried standards are being lowered to attract overseas students to Australian flight schools.<br \/>&#8220;There&#8217;s a looming international shortage of pilots, as the Chinese and Indian aviation industries grow, and what we&#8217;re calling on the Minister for Aviation, Mark Vaile, to do is to reign in the Civil Aviation Authority, review this new multi-crew pilot&#8217;s licence and make sure that Australia&#8217;s high safety standards are not reduced,&#8221; Mr Somerville said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">16\/10\/06 ABC Online, Australia <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Opposition has called for a Senate inquiry into a new type of pilot&#8217;s licence.The Civil Aviation Safety Authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}