No the guy is not seeking employment. But he made controversial and I believe specious claims regarding 9/11 and used his supposed status as an aeronautical engineer and commercial pilot to buttress his claims.

http://uncensored.co.nz/2010/08/15/nila-sagadevan-911-the-impossibility-of-flying-heavy-aircraft-without-training/

A good reason to make such licenses public is that charter company customers might want to check on the people flying them, asking the pilot to show you his license just before take off would be a bit awkward. I don’t see this as being analogous to a drivers license because (in the US at least) virtually every adult has the latter but only a small number (about 0.25%) the former. Unless the person doing the search would spend a lot of time entering random names they would enter names of people who claimed to be a pilot.

2 radios too expensive?

Melvin has just about covered it.

I think if I was having difficulty spotting a field I’d use every aid I could to its location.

They may not have ‘switched’ frequency as such. A King Air would almost certainly have two comms sets so it could have been a question of switching radios rather than frequency (Small point, but you might have been considering the distraction of dialling in a frequency?)

Moggy (pilot)

I’m not sure about the 2 radios FAA regulations mandated it have 2 headsets (or a headset and a separate speaker and mike) but only 1 transmitter. 2 transmitters are only required on turbojets that carry >10 PAX. The company didn’t buy “black boxes” because they were “too expensive”.

Len

EDITED – To fix mistakes in the last sentence