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Old 8th Feb 2007, 15:38
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newboy007
 
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This thread kinda smells of RYR bashing but just a couple of points.

The first post is misleading, at least to me, it reads as if anyone not in the landing gate by 500' is going to be demoted. This is not the case.

The reality is you would be asked to explain yourself to the OFDM liason. The demotion/sacking applies to approaches that have not met the 500' gate and continue to land having generated GPWS hard warnings (i.e PULL UP aural).
Thats a big difference, and of course not quite so dramatic reading.


The missing documentation you speak of probably refers to isolated incidents of crews not taking the correct in-date charts. Or it could be related to RYR aircraft not previously carrying lists of effective pages (LOEP's) which give the correct dates of jeppy charts (hardly saftey related).

Those of us who work for RYR having previous experience of other operators (in many cases UK operators) are well aware of the safety focus that RYR SOP's take. The small number of incidents and no hull loss in 21 years of operations isnt by luck...
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