Skyward Grounded

Disco Stu · Post by **Disco Stu** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:55 am

Heard Transport shut all Skyward ops down except the Caravans on Friday morning.

Apparently they were/are undergoing a routine audit. Guess TC must have found something.

Anyone have an idea why?

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:53 am

if i remember correctly this seems to happen once every couple of years or so.

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:31 pm

Knowing TC, they probably found some PAPERWORK not to their liking! You can push wx, overload, max out you duty time every single day (not that I'm saying Skyward does any of this, you understand) and TC wont even raise an eybrow as long as the stinking paperwork is up to snuff!! Seems almost everyday they come up with some more "paperwork" we have to fill out. Who comes up with some of this crap????

Cool Rythms! · Post by **Cool Rythms!** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:54 pm

Don't quote me on this, but I did hear from a couple of people, who have worked for Skyward in the past, that some of their planes are not all that well maintained. TC'c grounding of their operations might be due to maintenace issues.

Ranger · Post by **Ranger** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:45 pm

There was no grounding of Skywards operations by TC.....get your facts straight before you say something like that.

200 hrs · Post by **200 hrs** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:55 pm

OK. I have my facts straight. Skyward lost their OC.

Disco Stu · Post by **Disco Stu** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:13 am

Ranger wrote:There was no grounding of Skywards operations by TC.....get your facts straight before you say something like that.

Oh so sorry, they "voluntarily" grounded everything but the caravans and later a 1900 and a conquest.

Voluntarily suspending your own OC is BS. What do you think the reason for "voluntarily" doing it is? Because if you don't, Transport will pull it for you.

Doesn't really matter now anyway.