Re: Light Aircraft Strikes Fin on Cable During PFL
Nope neither do I want to know. Its bloody obvious that the only responce you are going to get on here is that its a daft thing to do and illegal. Might make you feel better people agreeing with you. But the result is nothing.
The club v training provider is a very complex issue which is different in every setup. Usually with all sorts of accountancy going on to decrease the tax exposure. And usually the training provider holds most of the cards including the jokers. Its very easy to setup up another club ( all they need to do is lease in a few aircraft) but it is very expensive and labour intensive requiring alot of fannying about to setup another training provider. A club can't sack a training providers employee. If its a bum fluffed faced FI no problem they can be shifted out by not giving them any work, starvation will make them leave. It is a competly different kettle of fish with an old instructor who knows the score. When a training provider left Perth it was a right pain for everyone concerned. And I know nothing about the in's and out's of why that happened.
The suggestion to delete the thread wasn't due to legal reasons or any other motive apart from to help your cause. The majority of FI's in scotland will have guessed who you are on about and a few phone calls will have been made. Most of the career/ experenced Instructors/examiners are extremly good at covering their arses, with this thread you have given the heads up that its out in the open.
By highlighting airmanship flaws/ illegal flights through this medium it basically stops any chance of the CAA doing anything about it. The person in question can cover there tracks so any impending investigation will not be able to progress to any useful conclusion.
I am sure that because of this thread that at least 2 flight ops inspectors who are very GA themselves will know about it and have guessed who your on about. But will be unable to do anything about it because the required reporting method hasn't been followed and they can't act on rumour from PPrune.
If you had chirp'd it the CAA would have been able to contact the student, the FI and an engineering inspection of the damage done. Now any case has been made 10 times harder because its in the public domain.
MJ
Last edited by mad_jock; 16th Jan 2006 at 15:10.