'By the way, everywhere I have ever worked the Captain can always over ride an MEL and refuse to take the aircraft, but he must have a VERY good reason and be prepared to explain his reason to the chief Pilot and Company.'
The Captain (Crew) may elect to, not accept an aircraft iaw the MEL, they do not refuse. Sorry it is a real downer of mine, the use of refuse to accept.
I have only ever seen this a couple of times in my career, and NO I do NOT mean when there is a valid reason, like weather or multiple conflicting MELs, I mean where the Captain just refuses to accept the aircraft with a quite legal MEL that he just doesn't agree with, in both cases there was no alternate aircraft available and the Captain eventually gave in to reason (Company pressure).
As for the other business, I give up and will not participate further on this thread, the ONLY reason I mentioned about trying to get more Engineers was because of the wording in a couple of very abrupt PMs I received from "Safety Concerns", but on this thread he denies that is the case.
