Emilymay86
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Is it easy or even possible to return to driving Trains after a career break? or a sabbatical to do something else? Or do you completely lose your license and have to start from the beginning again?
Would depend on circumstances I imagine.Do any TOCs offer sabbaticals to drivers ?
It’s very much like that in most safety critical industries.Always struck me as strange how licences simply “expire” and require qualified drivers to basically start again after a period of time. You’d think that as with shorter breaks in careers for drivers, they’d be re-briefed and re-assessed in rules and traction as necessary and then be allowed back driving once they’ve satisfied that they have retained their underpinning knowledge.
As far as I’m aware, it’s not like this in many other industries?
An EASA licence doesn’t expire, only the type ratings do. You don’t have to redo your PPL/CPL from scratch, you’d just revalidate it with some retraining and a skills test.It’s very much like that in most safety critical industries.
I’ve come from aviation and my license expired after a certain amount of time.
Always struck me as strange how licences simply “expire” and require qualified drivers to basically start again after a period of time. You’d think that as with shorter breaks in careers for drivers, they’d be re-briefed and re-assessed in rules and traction as necessary and then be allowed back driving once they’ve satisfied that they have retained their underpinning knowledge.
As far as I’m aware, it’s not like this in many other industries?
Correct. Currency is what we use in aviation. Very odd it's not the same in the railway.An EASA licence doesn’t expire, only the type ratings do. You don’t have to redo your PPL/CPL from scratch, you’d just revalidate it with some retraining and a skills test.
Fortunately ASLEF won’t allow it.Correct. Currency is what we use in aviation. Very odd it's not the same in the railway.
Not everyone in aviation are pilots. My license has expired.An EASA licence doesn’t expire, only the type ratings do. You don’t have to redo your PPL/CPL from scratch, you’d just revalidate it with some retraining and a skills test
Why fortunately? The safety culture in aviation is streets ahead of the railway.Fortunately ASLEF won’t allow it.
It's been like the across the industry. A good friend of mine had to start over as a trainee after 18 months away. Realistically any common sense would have had them do a TNA and put productive quicklyA guy at my TOC came back just shy of 2yrs. No issues whatsoever. This was just before COVID.
Unless I’m mistaken the post was saying they pay.Not everyone in aviation are pilots. My license has expired.
Why fortunately? The safety culture in aviation is streets ahead of the railway.
I think theres confusion over the word ‘currency’.Unless I’m mistaken the post was saying they pay.
Ah my mistakeI think theres confusion over the word ‘currency’.
Hes not talking about money when he says currency.
Yes, London Overground do:Do any TOCs offer sabbaticals to drivers ?
i was just clarifying, not every aviation licence expires.Not everyone in aviation are pilots. My license has expired.
Why fortunately? The safety culture in aviation is streets ahead of the railway.