The Old Fogducker wrote:I don't get it sometimes ... a substantial number of posters ask "Where is TC when it comes to shutting down lawbreakers?" After all, "everybody knows" they are doing something illegal, it can be smelled in the air ... and that should be enough to take a company out of the skies.
Then a company AOC gets suspended based on evidence, and they howl like wolves on the night of a full moon that these are great guys, .... just trying to get along in a dog-eat-dog world where nobody should be expected to follow the rules because they are unrealistic. Nobody can make money unless airplanes are flown overweight, beyond inspections, broken items are never snagged, and aircraft are staffed by crews that don't have any qualms about falsifying document entries. Oh, and I forgot ... no weather is too low to get in on a non-precision approach if the guy "handling the pole" is a decent pilot, and not a gutless coward.
After all, its just the way of "the real world."
So you'd think TC just spins a roulette wheel on Monday morning, rounds up an RCMP officer, gets a Search Warrant from a judge, goes and kicks in a few doors, rips the AOC off the wall just for the entertainment value.
That said, I can't say I was impressed with the Ops Mgr's statement to the press that the company will need to meet with TC to determine how to comply with the regs ... an Ops Mgr is supposed to know how to keep the company "above board" without expecting TC to become a management consultant.
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The above post is the reason that my rank is 0 and I think this will be my second post ever on Avcanada (and it's likely to be my last for a long time, yes, yes, I'll say it for you antagonists-"good riddens"...bla bla bla). I don't know how long this site has been around, but I have been reading on this site for 15 years or so (don't freak out if Avcanada is only 14 years old etc, etc, this is an estimate) and have avoided getting involved in some of the idiocy that goes on here. Disclaimer: There is a lot of good reading and conversation on Avcanada.
The Old Fogducker, I see that you joined March 2004. I'm surprised that almost 6 years as a member here has not left you with the desire to contribute with more beneficial and accurate material.
First, the company that is being slammed here has never publicly said that they have never done anything wrong (that I know of anyway), what I am hearing in the press is that they are making every effort to cooperate with TC. This is not the only company around that has had their OC suspended, including companies on the same airfield.
As far as this statement:
Nobody can make money unless airplanes are flown overweight, beyond inspections, broken items are never snagged, and aircraft are staffed by crews that don't have any qualms about falsifying document entries. Oh, and I forgot ... no weather is too low to get in on a non-precision approach if the guy "handling the pole" is a decent pilot, and not a gutless coward.
After all, its just the way of "the real world."
That just sounds like blithering; cannon fodder. and if I worked at this company I would certainly be offended at the insinuations. Maybe there are those (at any company) that will break rules for their boss, but I bet if you got off of this anonymous forum and went to the company's place of business and looked those pilots in the eye, you would sing a different song, I'll bet there are a lot of good hard working professionals there.
And I don't know if you have problems reading, but as I read the Winnipeg Free Press article, I don't think they were quoting the Operations Manager.
OK, blast away, I will give you the last word.
