A Line Training Captain and Check Airman on the A320, examining on the same fleet he flies every week. When your training department runs short — seasonal peak, a sick examiner, a new base spooling up — I cover the checks, arrive standardised, and file the paperwork the same day.
Summer recurrent season, a fleet ramp-up, an examiner off sick. I take the overflow checks so your own instructors stay on the line instead of losing days to the simulator. Over 10,000 hours on the family and more than 500 in the simulator as an instructor and examiner. I train and check on the line as well — on the type I fly every week, not one I left years ago.
I know what your competent authority wants to see before an external examiner signs an OPC. Records, currency, seminar dates and standardisation evidence come to you in one package, ready for your Part D.
Forms completed and submitted the day of the check, debriefs written the same evening, grading calibrated to your grading policy — not mine. One clean invoice, sent directly, with no agency margin in between.
The sequence below is the one your authority expects. I have been through it before and I keep the evidence pack current, so it usually takes days rather than weeks.
Licence, examiner certificate, currency and last refresher seminar — sent in one PDF within a day of your first email, together with anything else your post holder needs.
You list me in your training manual and, where required, notify your competent authority. I supply whatever wording your post holder needs.
I read your Part D, your grading policy and your fleet's known deviations, then sit a standardisation session with your Head of Training before the first check.
You send slots, I confirm inside 24 hours. Short-notice cover is the point of hiring me, so late requests are welcome rather than tolerated.
Check forms, licence endorsements and debrief notes back with you on the day. Nothing left for your training admin to chase.
If your type rating has lapsed, if you are between contracts, or if you need a skill test after self-funded training, you can book me directly. I work with simulator centres across Europe and can arrange the device as well as the examiner.
Refresher training at an ATO followed by a renewal LPC. Tell me how long it has been lapsed and I will tell you honestly how much training you are likely to need first.
A straightforward revalidation LPC in a qualified A320 FFS. Usually one session, one day.
You finished a self-sponsored type rating and need the test flown and signed. I coordinate with your ATO.
Yes. There is no point at which a lapsed type rating becomes unrecoverable — what changes is how much refresher training an ATO has to give you before the renewal LPC, and that is determined by the ATO in agreement with the authority. Send me the expiry date and your recent hours and I will give you a realistic estimate before you spend anything.
Yes — that is the normal case rather than the exception. A Part-FCL examiner certificate is valid throughout the EASA Member States regardless of which authority issued it. For checks under your AOC I additionally need to be nominated in your approved programme and standardised by your Head of Training, and I familiarise myself with your national procedures beforehand.
Either. Operators normally use their own contracted device. Individual pilots usually want me to arrange it — I work with several A320 FFS operators in Central Europe and will quote device and examiner separately so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Seventy-two hours is a typical turnaround and short-notice cover is what I am for. Recurrent season fills up early, so if you know your peak weeks now, block them now.
Like a check, not an ambush. You get the profile and the ground topics in advance, a proper briefing, and a debrief that tells you what to work on whether you pass or not. A check ride is a snapshot of a normal day, and I run it that way.
For operators: send the dates, the device and the type of check. For individual pilots: send your licence state, the rating expiry date and your recent hours. Either way you get an answer within 24 hours.