Originally Posted by
BAA Training
It is worth noting that training disruptions partially occurred due to a severe storm that occurred in Lleida during the summer of last year. This natural hazard caused damage to our maintenance facilities and aircraft, leading to the temporary cancellation of flight training operations. During this period, we had to rely on external providers to perform maintenance on our aircraft, as our own facilities were destroyed.
Your fleet was destroyed due to the fact that you do not have hangars to store your aircraft indoors, instead you
'tie them down' outdoors with ropes and other prehistoric technology.
Storms, hail showers are not uncommon weather phenomena in Lleida, therefore they cannot be pushed aside by labeling them 'unprecedented' when it happens regularly every year at the same time, during the same periods of months. Temperatures rising to above +40 degrees celcius (which increases strong convective activity) is the norm in the summers in Lleida and in Spain in general, this is almost common sense.
You cannot start to scratch your head and wonder why fleet damage occurs and cry force majeure whenever something happens to your fleet when you yourself have not taken the necessary measures to protect it.
And we certainly know that other schools in the same region where you operate DO take the necessary precautions for adverse weather conditions and instead use proper hangars, store fleet indoors with proper securing measures in place and utilize airport infrastructure to their extent.
But we all know why you don't do this - it is to save money at the expense of training quality
