Flight Safety - its everyones responsibility
My apologies if this subject has been covered before but I think it needs saying and putting in the public domain.
How long will it be before an airman, say on frontline Sqn, with his pay all messed up causing them some distress because he has mortgage and children etc, makes a mistake causing a flight safety incident or god forbid we lose an aircraft?
It would never happen in the old days - If there was a mess up in pay the Chief Clerk could authorise cash in hand immediately to cover short fall and help Johnny airman feed his children - they cant anymore.
Human factors are an important part of our management culture now and therefore this JPA debacle needs addressing. It causes hours away from the primary task when we are breaking point and the stress will affect flight safety be it from a maintainer’s perspective or aircrew. I accept we are all professional - but we are also human!