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I’m now a highly qualified pilot.

I’m sure it was some wise guy in the public service who figured he could make himself important if he created an additional rating on an ag pilots licence. A mouse baiting rating.
A bloke travelled all around the country tutoring ag pilots on how to go about what has always been their business. Following an afternoons tutoring we sat a written and in time received accreditation to bait mice. Something we have done for years.
It hadn’t been legal for a long time because the usual old insecticide we had always used was a chlorinated hydrocarbon (DDT family) and had been withdrawn from use. We then moved to more modern but unregistered at the time -organophosphates. No I’m not trying to baffle you with big words. Then when eventually organophosphates had become registered for mouse baiting the government played catchup.
I now have a“mice baiting rating”. I have been tutored, examined and granted a licence by a bloke who has never dropped a mice bait in his life and can’t fly an aeroplane.



Now that’s progress don’t you think.?