i am a student here and my concern is about safety.
there are a remarkable number of failures which happened with students from course Bravo and luckily they handled them. it usual to have Engine failures anywhere in the world. but to have frequent failures in such a short time indicates a problem either in the maintainance department or the plane itself..
i wonder why did not they bring this to surface in the last town hall meetings...
any comments guys...??
flysafe1, do you want to know why the safety topic is off limits in Ayla?
The current Head of Maintenance is a dispatcher NOT an engineer. Actually that position is shared by the CEO which is also NOT an engineer. In countries like UK, USA or Europe the authorities would shut down such a place, but in Jordan, money talks, jut keep it quiet.
Recently a fuel line was left undone nearly killing the CEO. Of course he kept it quiet.
The first engine failure was at night and the pilot was a PPL on his first solo after the exam. I’ll say that again: on his first solo after the PPL exam at night in Mountainous terrain. Not only this is not quality training but every pilot knows that accidents are the results of a chain of errors not a single one: Mountainous terrain + night + low experience in general + very low experience at night. Despite the student managed to save his life and the aircraft the CEO jumped on the instructor’s a
s for not being at the airport that night (what could have he done?) instead of praising him for a good emergency training to the student. The CFI didn't change training system since but instead kept filling up the following nights schedule again with students with fresh ink on their PPL “just to get night flying out of the way for CPL training”. Somebody never learns.
so, no engineers to certify maintenance and a poor safety management system.
you wonder why they don’t bring these things up during the town hall meetings? Because they want you believe everything is safe and well done. It's just a big show. Wake up before someone will get hurt.