[Uram-rejections] REPOST: OBTAINING A UK FULL (RECIPROCAL) LICENCE VIA A SINGLE EXAM

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 You might say it is hard to see who would want to do it, but 'ridiculous' is a step too far.  No contempt for RSGB was stated so please don't impute motives to other posters.

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> From: Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet at stephenthomascole.com>
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> Subject: Re: REPOST: OBTAINING A UK FULL (RECIPROCAL) LICENCE VIA A
>  SINGLE EXAM
> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 19:12:30 -0000 (UTC)
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> mm0fmf <none at invalid.com> wrote:
> > On 02/05/2016 08:35, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> >> Burt <Aero.Burt at mail.invalid> wrote:
> >>> The post below has been copied from ukra with the author's permission.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> OBTAINING A UK FULL (RECIPROCAL) LICENCE VIA A SINGLE EXAM
> >>> 
> >>> This involves <snip>
> >> 
> >> I think I asked this in "The Other Place" once but never got a satisfactory
> >> response from the OP, so I'll try here. What is the point of an individual
> >> taking this tortured route if they have the "official" UK exam system
> >> available to them? The FL and IL are easy to organise in quick succession
> >> and the Advanced exams are regular as clockwork, so if somebody wanted to
> >> go from no licence to Full licence in short order, all it'd take is a
> >> little planning and minimal effort. Positing a jaunt to Ireland simply to
> >> take a single exam versus three seems excessively convoluted.
> >> 
> > It seems to be a method to thumb your nose at any RSGB involvement in 
> > obtaining a UK licence. No more, no less. 
> 
> That certainly looks like it's the case. 
> 
> >The method was suggested by a 
> > number of very anti-RSGB people. The type who continuously find fault in 
> > all and every RSGB action but never posit any solutions to the issues 
> > they complain about. It's easy to find fault, but requires a lot more 
> > effort to find solutions.
> 
> The whole notion is borderline ridiculous and surely entirely ineffective
> as a tool to cock a snook at the RSGB anyway, as these anti-RSGB types are
> most likely already licence holders and newcomers are very unlikely to hold
> the grudges required to motivate them to eschew the simple set of exams
> they can do at their local club in favour of travelling abroad to sit
> somebody else's exam and then chop the ticket in for ours. The numbers of
> people that have done this must be vanishingly small to non-existent. 
> 
> -- 
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