That is absolutely ridiculous.Bede wrote:Part of being a professional is having the judgement to decide what you are qualified to do and what you aren't . I know an engineer and all he does is design industrial greenhouses. Is there a "greenhouse engineering" discipline? No there isn't. A client came to him one day and asked him to design a greenhouse. He read some books, designed the guy a greenhouse, and stamped it. Referral led to referral and now that's all he does.
So I as a professional AME, should I have the desire to study any trade that requires legal licensing to certify a given task, go and study it and get a real good grasp on it, am all of a sudden qualified to perform tasks at my choosing that only the licensed professional for that discipline is legally required to certify? Again, in my opinion ridiculous.
A local TCCA M&M inspector has no authority to "OK" any contravention of the regulations. There is a lengthy process to go thorough to get this sort of thing done. I've tried this myself with far less black and white issues and was refused each time. I have heard urban myths of TCCA authorizing exemptions to certain requirements, but in my almost 20 years as an aviation professional have never seen it. TCCA's role is to ensure that regulations and standards are followed, not to make calls on contravening them. Police officers don't have the authority to determine which laws to enforce. They have to enforce all of them. Ones that take it upon themselves to say which apply and which don't have neglected the trust given them.Bede wrote: Keep in mind, as per the AA, TC can OK anything as long as they feel it is safe. In this case TC felt it was safe for a PEng to stamp a weight and balance.
The fix was simple. Have the AME who made the mistake correct the error and if not possible pay for a couple hours labor to have another appropriately LICENSED AME correct it. The law requires it.
