Squirrel
Thanx for your candid reply....as ususal the **** roles downhill.
Nobody will publicly advocate breaking any rules, especially TC, and neither can your management. If you ask a question that requires them to assume your risk, or that tells them to stop your operations, you will not get a yes or no answer, because they're not that "dumb".
TC won't enforce their own regulations and because of that operators see it as the green light. But you are right, if noone else has the backbone to do the right thing, the pilot is the last hope.
Its much easier for everyone else that way isn't it?
Cheers
P.S. only in aviation can the word "dumb" and the word "responsible" be used interchangeably......and I have a new hobby