Bashinabout
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As for getting bogged or misidentifying a station strip, GET OVER IT!
On an anonymous forum you are happy to beat your chests, but how many of you guys have seen these strips?
And how many of you would bet your left leg that after some rain you wouldn’t get bogged too?
Or misidentify a strip? Dry versus wet looks a whole lot different from the air……
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Mate! This contract is required to be operated as a Regular Public Transport service, not the Paris to Dakar rally!!
Mis-identifying strips:
RPT ops, CAR 218, Route and Aerodrome Qualifications, is legislated to prevent this happening.
Getting bogged:Again this is RPT, not Charter.
A strip condition report should be available from the reporting officer (nominated person at property).
CAAP 92 spells out most of the requirements of ALA operators serviced by RPT.
And you're missing a point somewhere:
The previous operator (20+ years running the service) lost their Chief Pilot approval AND their RPT AOC,
after getting bogged on a strip that the reporting officer certified as serviceable.
And after correctly notifying the regulators, and getting a permit to fly out.
Maybe a perverted action by the previous regime of CASA Nth Qld,
but thankfully the miscreants are now contemplating their respective alternative futures, outside of CASA.
Do not confuse Charter and RPT, although the new CASR's will see Charter being required to raise standards.
An RPT passenger paying for a seat on an airline has a right to certain expectations.
One of these is an expectation that the trip from A to B will be conducted with the highest degree of safety and free of incident.
CAR 217, CAR 218 and CAO 82 spell out most of the requirements to ensure this.
A charter pilot, due to the ad hoc nature of charter, deals with a higher degree of risk with ALA operations.
A charter pilot may self brief and self assess all aspects of his/her flight.
An RPT pilot will operate to SOP's, be route and aerodrome qualified
and have anccess to an infrastructure that ensures that the whole operation is minimum risk.
Yes, we all have the opportunity for getting bogged in charter ops,
I have been, as have many readers,but that same opportunity must be eliminated or greatly diminished in RPT.
It's a scheduled service, if there is doubt about a strip, that is sufficient reason to not land there.
Both CASA and any legal team would have a field day with you if,
on an RPT service, you chose to operate into a strip about which you had doubts and an incident resulted.