Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
Sure I am aware of that but where does that stand legally though if it all gets nasty? Those in the industry take the preamble as being the end of the matter, the law may not see it that way.
The company document suite, in its entirety is legally binding. They will hang you with any and all of the applicable document if you ever fvck up. Neither they nor you and I can cherry pick. The preamble is sacrosanct. We shouldn’t be accepting any MEL other than to return to a maintenance base, even then you’d need to be able to explain to a judge why you chose to accept the MEL if you were ever unfortunate enough to be fronting a board of inquiry.
Just for sh!ts-n-gigs, count how many times you hear the word ‘safety’ the next time you pax anywhere. You would swear they believed it.