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But you face a major problem in a lot of airports: You often have only one service provider and you are forced to take the service as it is or you will not fly.
Especially business jet operators have to deal with this problem on a daily basis in winter. But exactly most of them are not spending a minute and a dollar on an audit program. Look on the statistics and you will see that the last three accidents happened in the range of business jets:
- Moscow-Vnukovo, February 2007, CL600
- Almaty, December 2007, CL600
- Yerevan, February 2008, CRJ200
A lot of these operators do not have the most essential things:
- training for flight crews
- updated hold-over-time charts
- list of qualified fluids
- and some more
Being in this business for nearly 20 years, the standard in a lot of places is going down and does not improve at all. A lot of pilots are forced to deal with such conditions and do it, meaning they fly. I know only a few guys who step out of the cockpit and say "NO".