Now I remember why I don't post on PPRuNe very often.
I just received a PM which read in part.............
The situation is now completely out of control with over 90% of faults only being entered on a flight into a base. Quite frankly this is not on and is a major safety issue.
But how did we end up in this situation? Because over many years engineers thinking they were clever writing up 3 pages of defects in Norwich for example were in fact STUPID. These sorts of actions not only put lives at unnecessary extra risk but allowed operators to cut engineer numbers back to such an extent that maintenance no longer takes place when it should but when its convenient.
What a load of rubbish.
The example I quoted was on a Fokker F27 FERRY FLIGHT from Melbourne Australia to Norwich in England taking some 10 days, just myself and 3 Captains on board, NO other help available unless were we grounded and would have had to seek local help in various Countries on route, NOT doing anyone out of a job, certainly NO danger involved.
We had many "defects" on route for example one maxaret played up on some legs but as we were using major International Airports with massive long runways (for an F27) we ALL decided to press on, another was no water methanol on one side sometimes, again due Airports/runways being used it was NOT a problem or danger.
However when handing the Aircraft over to another Company in Norwich I was obligated to log any defects that were on the Aircraft at the time.
Sorry if you don't like that, it is (or was in my time) called being a PROFESSIONAL.
