Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

Re:Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, avia... by albntomat0 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:42AM (#23641946)

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.

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Re:Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, avia... by not2b on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:35PM (#23642524)

If 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?

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Re:Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, avia... by VBprogrammer on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:06PM (#23644988)

I 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.

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Re:Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, avia... by redis_mlc on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:58PM (#23646254)

> 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.

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