Re: Changes in the West
Stick Pusher, your blind faith in companies doing the correct thing and CASA actually ensuring they do is "interesting".
I would suggest just about every company out there is flaunting the rules, some know they are, others inadvertantly. The result is the same of course.
With regards to the 60 min business, I recall Scare North operating to Timika from Darwin, there is absolutley no way they could do that within 60 mins single engine in a Brasilia, but don't let that stop them. They used to stick the life raft in the nose locker of the metro, that in itself indicates their attention to the saftey of their passengers. Why take one at all? I wonder if management beieve the weight of safety equipment should be included in weight calculations?