Stink Finger and Starlight
About time.
Check my post in the YLHR GPS/NPA thread regarding the five year fatality rate for the NQAO.
How about 52 fatalities ?
As I stated there, the evidence is glaringly obvious, there is NO obvious emphasis on safety,
just an overwhelming desire to write up as many RCA's, ASIR's as possible, and the pursuit of personal vendettas,
against their own staff and selected operators.
When the new AM, AC, gets rid of the problem and its devotees,
he will continue with his established desire to
consult, mentor, encourage, and where necessary dsicipline.
Once trust, confidence and respect has been fully restored, we can all get on with working together
to improve our safety record and compliance.
This is how it used to be before the ascendancy of OLC.
The ascendancy of OLC may be graphed and will depict the reciprocal decline
of General Aviation, and the decline of safety.
By all means penalise the deliberate flaunting of rules and safety,
identify the shonks and the financially unviable,
encourage them to either move on, or gain financial backing.
but work with the mostly compliant to help them lift their standards to where we all want them to be.
Be like the country Police seargent, fit in with the community, but gently enforce the law by co-operation, and if that fails, action.
We should all display this poster somewhere in our office / crew rooms:
If you think SAFETY is expensive, try an Accident