SAT_BOSS
21st Dec 2007, 10:05
Last night I was chatting to my boet’s laaitie who flies for a Contractor that has a WFP contract on that planet where no amount of aid can ever rectify the inherent genetic idiotic deficiency of driving a car; let alone run a country!
I am out of this game completely (Rossair was my last gig – before EA got into more coins than Rand Dollar exchange rates – and shortly before MM saw an Otter AD that was outstanding for ICRC and Rossair ran out of words to explain the bull f:mad:….t)
Funny thing was hearing my boet’s laaitie as how the WFP made the playing field “level” for all operators regarding safety and the thing in Rome called the UN Bean Counter. The UN Bean Counter is a very specialist creature that cannot really count beans in a normal world of employment so the UN hires him because he has never made one cent and only spent money from naïve individuals and countries with a guilt consciousness as large as aircraft carriers.
The UN also hires as I said in a previous post former “Piss Pot Country Air Force” pilots with vast experiences to run a civilian contracting game.
Now after some spectacular crashes the WFP (Pristina comes to mind) the WFP sort of woke up and they started to look at aviation safety.
Unfortunately they cannot be sued as they have diplomatic cover so they pass the buck to the contractor to provide insurance. Furthermore the WFP knows that by staying with Africans as the only preferred contractors that they and the Contractor will have a much better run of things in a Court of Law, compared to say Europe and North America.
Knowing this the end safety for aviation is still the good old bean counter in Rome. And lately he has designed and developed a brand new aircraft that is called the Super 1900D aircraft that I need to tell all of you guys about.
The super 1900D aircraft is normally based in Kenya and is actually known as an old hand me down 1900B that has a C sticker on it. Now this super D can actually be loaded in Africa on very hot days to the gills and 19 passengers can then strap in. They will use the whole runway to wobble into the air and fly all over the show, busting any thing that is remotely called a FDP and Load Chart.
So at the end of the month the Bean Counter can look and say heck boys, the Kenyan 1900 Super D cost about as much as a 200, yet flies and loads a lot more than the South African 1900D, so we have a winner.
Because no safety oversight by WFP is in the field and the odd audit that they conduct will flush out some Operators if they did not file the papers properly. That constitutes WFP’s input on safety.
Once a proper audit is done over the last 3 years showing all operators with ICAO accepted FDP standards and manufacturers recommended loading sheets then the operator that bust safety rules will be exposed and they should be stricken off the role PERMANENTLY. Now that is proper oversight, that is proper safety management, not collecting vast paychecks, passing the buck more and more to the operator and paying starvation margins to contractors and expect safety.
You will not see ONE European or North American Registered outfit fly for the WFP, because in simple terms the WFP has forced the price to such a bare bone margin that no safety can inherently be built into the program.
Maybe once in this world in which we live a knowledgeable aviation journalist can get hold of this story and run with it then you might have the Humanitarian NGO community that has been trying for 30 years to get water to run out of a tap to agitate that the safety of WFP flights should be on par or equal to those of accepted CAA’s that actually do pass specific audits from countries that have proper safety oversight.
I guess its wishful thinking and quid pro quo at that because on that continent where genetically deficient idiots govern, guilt ridden tree huggers try and get water to flow out of a tap for the past 30 years then you will always have a mentality of safety being the very last thing in real terms on anybody’s mind.
Greetings to all old Africa hands from a cold Canada! :}
I am out of this game completely (Rossair was my last gig – before EA got into more coins than Rand Dollar exchange rates – and shortly before MM saw an Otter AD that was outstanding for ICRC and Rossair ran out of words to explain the bull f:mad:….t)
Funny thing was hearing my boet’s laaitie as how the WFP made the playing field “level” for all operators regarding safety and the thing in Rome called the UN Bean Counter. The UN Bean Counter is a very specialist creature that cannot really count beans in a normal world of employment so the UN hires him because he has never made one cent and only spent money from naïve individuals and countries with a guilt consciousness as large as aircraft carriers.
The UN also hires as I said in a previous post former “Piss Pot Country Air Force” pilots with vast experiences to run a civilian contracting game.
Now after some spectacular crashes the WFP (Pristina comes to mind) the WFP sort of woke up and they started to look at aviation safety.
Unfortunately they cannot be sued as they have diplomatic cover so they pass the buck to the contractor to provide insurance. Furthermore the WFP knows that by staying with Africans as the only preferred contractors that they and the Contractor will have a much better run of things in a Court of Law, compared to say Europe and North America.
Knowing this the end safety for aviation is still the good old bean counter in Rome. And lately he has designed and developed a brand new aircraft that is called the Super 1900D aircraft that I need to tell all of you guys about.
The super 1900D aircraft is normally based in Kenya and is actually known as an old hand me down 1900B that has a C sticker on it. Now this super D can actually be loaded in Africa on very hot days to the gills and 19 passengers can then strap in. They will use the whole runway to wobble into the air and fly all over the show, busting any thing that is remotely called a FDP and Load Chart.
So at the end of the month the Bean Counter can look and say heck boys, the Kenyan 1900 Super D cost about as much as a 200, yet flies and loads a lot more than the South African 1900D, so we have a winner.
Because no safety oversight by WFP is in the field and the odd audit that they conduct will flush out some Operators if they did not file the papers properly. That constitutes WFP’s input on safety.
Once a proper audit is done over the last 3 years showing all operators with ICAO accepted FDP standards and manufacturers recommended loading sheets then the operator that bust safety rules will be exposed and they should be stricken off the role PERMANENTLY. Now that is proper oversight, that is proper safety management, not collecting vast paychecks, passing the buck more and more to the operator and paying starvation margins to contractors and expect safety.
You will not see ONE European or North American Registered outfit fly for the WFP, because in simple terms the WFP has forced the price to such a bare bone margin that no safety can inherently be built into the program.
Maybe once in this world in which we live a knowledgeable aviation journalist can get hold of this story and run with it then you might have the Humanitarian NGO community that has been trying for 30 years to get water to run out of a tap to agitate that the safety of WFP flights should be on par or equal to those of accepted CAA’s that actually do pass specific audits from countries that have proper safety oversight.
I guess its wishful thinking and quid pro quo at that because on that continent where genetically deficient idiots govern, guilt ridden tree huggers try and get water to flow out of a tap for the past 30 years then you will always have a mentality of safety being the very last thing in real terms on anybody’s mind.
Greetings to all old Africa hands from a cold Canada! :}