JB - could tell all - but then I'd have to shoot you !
Close to max FDP, think we all remember KLM at TFS, enough said...........
One thing I've never understood about this industry.
Pilots, fully trained obviously !
Cabin crew, trained accordingly
Engineers, lots of nice bits of paper for those guys.
Yet the chaps and chapesses who run a multi billion dollar capital intensive, quick moving industry where tens of thousands can be spent in an instant are hardly trained !
Why ?
Well we all know that the power in UK aviation still rests with the four gold bars and if you don't fly you are not as important. Goodness forbid that any one on the ground in European aviation should be given any real power. Just think, they would have to pay us real money.
I'm lucky enough to have an FAA dispatchers licence. This would not solve all the problems in the world if a European equivilent was introduced but it would certainly prove to the rest of the industry that the ops and crewing chaps and chapesses ARE intelligent, dedicated, hard working, well trained individuals.
It just won't happen though cos the powers that be don't want it.
ps do I get a round of applause for my 50th posting!