Captain Geoff Wall has been removed from operations at Air Canada after flying for seventeen years without a licence.
The airline has said that he's not a captain, he's a very naughty boy.
In my considered opinion as a one-time airline training captain, I should like to say that the lack of a licence matters not a bit; with two pilots up front it's soon obvious to their opposite number if either's short of the full ticket.
I'd a friend who joined the A330 operation servicing an RAF transport requirement... as a captain, despite never having been one. After a period I recall of some three weeks, closer examination showed that the reference on his CV was Jabba Desilijic Tiure ~ better known for appearing in Star Wars than for his exploits in airliners*.
Occasionally people walk around in white coats and get to become surgeons, and as with people like Geoff Wall, they're usually more motivated than the average NHS employee instead of less.
One was even tasked to operate on my own brain, which is why this blog is as it is.
* My friend made The Sun newspaper under the headline 'Jobba the Hutt' and later went on to infiltrate the KGB dressed as Darth Vader.
