ek called for their training and books been written by pilots from south of the equator.
their way might not be wrong, but it's definitely no longer adapted to what's going on in most
other parts of the world. they train locals, with little leverage to unroot what should
never be airborne. atc guys complaining about ek procedures at their home base speaks volumes.
there's ample experienced hands around, but with cp's and chief-tre's on actual display,
they'd rather stay well away and just survive unseen and evenmore unheard of.
ek developped a communication culture which greatly reflects arab mentality: colourful
wording and promisses, but only shades of submissive grey in execution. best demonstrated
with a.s.'s letter about non punitive reporting: who actually believes just one word of it?
you will never be able to uphold quality in this blaming and distrustful environement.
t & c's have to enable a standard of living, not just for today, but for retirement planning aswell.
every greedy local strives to enhance his standard of living. expats should at least be able to
uphold the standard they started out with. instead the same people owning ek, and beeing of the
earlier pack, do their thing on our backs. however their arrogant "love it or leave it" fades out
slowly because the market forces work both ways.
the solution is:
1.improve t & c's: we should be able to live in a villa in a nice environement,
to join a club or have a middle priced hobby, to own a dubai-proven suv, to send our kids to a
decent school, to enjoy a good fortnight of vacation at home, to go out twice a week and to put
a further 10% into any retirement plan, all this without running out of cash.
2. dilute the oz/sa training clans and allow some fresh influence to avoid quality inbreed.
adhere to the exact same standards and gradings, irrespective of nationality, for safety's sake!
3. most of all: think, speak and act straight forward, throw over board the opportunistic
and dirty blaming game, so characteristic for the me!
there's still time and even some motivation left among most of us. but we're in desperate need
of a real leader to implement changes. there lies my pessimism, for as apart from sheik mo,
i have not seen anyone close to deserving such a designation, and he has even bigger problems
to solve around this place. unfortunately there has to be a major catastrophe (economical
or metallical) before anything will be allowed to move.
history repeats itself.