737 jock, I was speaking to an ex Ryan Capt the other day who is now with our outfit and it shocked me to hear that Ryan carry a set of original Jepps on the flight-deck wrapped in cellophane, if these are opened it is a tech log entry. Meanwhile the crew actually collect photocopied plates from the crewroom and according to him on several occasions later in the day the crew discovered either pages missing or inadequately photocopied.
Leaving aside the fact that I would imagine this is a breach of Jeppesen's copyright I am far more concerned at the thought that there are commercial aeroplanes flying around with pilots trying to fly approaches in adverse wx or at night without clear copies of the required plates.
You can say what you like, but to me if this is the case the CAA should be very concerned about it, as should passengers and crew as it is extremely poor practice, in fact I'm staggered it has been allowed to go on.
Desk-pilot, sorry cannot let that go unchallenged!
No it's NOT a tech log entry if the "brick" is broken into but there is a follow up form to hand in at base so that the integrity of the pack is checked for future flights. (Gosh if it
was a Tech Log entry I wonder what the engineers would make of it!).
Been with said company for three years and never had (or heard of) one case of missing charts etc. There is a protocol for checking that all valid charts are complete prior to leaving the crew room.
As far as I am aware there is
no breach of Copywright concerning Jeppesen - if there was I am sure Jeppesen would have acted long ago!
Your comments about pilots conducting approaches at night and/or in poor wx without clear copies of instrument approaches plates are factually untrue. (And I speak as one who is more senior in years who needs reading glasses when the lighting level is lower).
So there you are - all your comments are factually untrue so unsurprisingly there is no need for the CAA, passengers or crew to be "concerned".