Originally Posted by
Kit Sanbumps KG
But as a football manager, whose view on air travel is that it’s highly regulated and very prestige, how would you even begin to know that you weren’t applying that care, when credible shysters are selling you charter? The CAA view that ‘The first part of the approach is to educate the travelling public’, which is not challenged by the AAIB, is fantasy. The first part has to be proper regulation. In this regard, and conveniently assisted by the very fortuitous CO finding, the report is a whitewash.
Every aircraft owner I have hired from has been motivated by financial interest. They don't want their precious asset lost without recompense from the insurance company. So they check what the aircraft is being used for, they check on what licence/ratings are held by the pilot, they check whether they are current and whether the intended use is completely legal.
In this case the owner, the trust company, has handed the aircraft over to an aircraft manager without any legal agreement as to how the aircraft is to be used and seemingly without recourse to financial indemnity for any professional incompetence.
Of course the owner, may have just have been acting on instructions from the beneficial owner. The beneficial owner being a professional person who full well understands the professional management of assets, you have the aircraft owner, the beneficial owner and the aircraft manager all acting in a reckless way with nobody prepared to put a check on the other parties.