Tubes
Going down the tubes is one thing, it is not !
The amount of business now is obviously fantastic.
The operational part of the company is stretched in the extreme. Morale is at rock bottom in the flight department. Of course at this time of year the tempers are easily frayed as the temperature and humidity rises.
The faces that are being drafted into the seat of 412's are those not normally seen in such a lowly and dowdy aircraft. And then there is the sole 139, whos jockey's, will once typed, will only seldom be found "at the coal face". The challenges of operating Cat 'A' machinery is well beyond the scope for now and until a higher authority equips them with some more plagiarised SOP's and maybe even MEL's. It also maybe that the until the good people from "Kintore Aviation" have had their palms crossed with the needful, will the additions to the book then be installed. Until then blindly going where few men have dared to go.