I heard about cases like yours, and I heard also about MOE's losing customers due to strict following the rules.
In my 18 years Line on stations all over the world, it happend sometimes that crews were insisting the work which has to be done, but they tried it only for a minute............ (the dumb ones dies earlier
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I saw different cases that Crews were happy to get their planes fixed, or at least deferred to home base. But when the same plane came unfixed back, it was AOG (ok it helped a lot that every 14 days the FAA came for a coffee to my office
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I think Ian was planning a trip, and after all the horrible stories about tired flight crews and Flu and what else, he wanted to know, that we are still safe,
yes Ian You can fly, because we are proud of our work.
we keep them flying ...................
SAFE