Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Squawk, there are 252 posts on this forum about ramp checks, not many are complimentary.
Vag, the regulations are so convoluted that no aircraft is “safe” from an inspector who decides she doesn’t like you.
To put it another way, can you imagine the public outrage if it was announced that every vehicle traveling to the footy today was going to be roadworthy tested and the drivers breathalyzer and checked for unpaid fines?
Folks,
Exactly!!
It is no myth.
Tootle pip!!
PS: One horror story, some time back (the repeat offender is now retired from DCA/DoT-ATG/CAA/CASA) ---- ramp an aerobatic aircraft as it returns from a training session, snag both pilots for not having sundry paperwork on board,----- because you want as little as possible to go flying around the cockpit ---- and I have never been able to get CASA to admit to a definitive list of what has to be produced at a ramp check --- and I mean "definitive" as in a legal defence.
So, you wind up in the AAT fighting an "expert witness" --- opinion, or just accept the penalty.
The last airshow at YSBK --- long time ago now, CASA made everybody's life hell on the day, from CASA sitting almost on the Ringmaster's lap, to what was straight forward harassment of individual pilots taking part.