5Reds
The new government yesterday announced that they were going to demolish a lot of health and safety bodies, quangos, departments, sub departments and eliminate a lot of the mindless burocracy which means one thing and one thing only and that is cost! huge costs! They intend to save £150 billion over 4 years.
If you and others are saying that AOC ops have been so loaded that their services are no longer cost attractive and regulators must create some sort of take it or leave it structure to protect that regulatory industry then that is very worrying.
Owner X has a lovingly cared for Citation Bravo with a professional crew and flies 300 hrs per year. He uses it to fly an employee family that day quite legally!
That same family the next day rent an AOC Bravo to fly the same trip and pay for it! That Bravo is hard worked flying 900 hours per year( remember we hear horror stories in both ops)
Are that family somehow entitled to more safety purley on the basis that money has exchanged hands in the AOC op?
If the private op goes into shorter fields than the AOC whos fault is that? Not the owner or pilots but the regulations.
In all walks of life from accountancy to tax to aviation there are grey areas in the regulations where specialists are paid a fortune to legally exploit those areas. Dont blame them but the regulations themselves?
I would rather see all the needless expensive burocracy chopped away so that both private and AOC ops are on more of a level playing field then you wont have to employ even more expensive departments to run around beating off anythinmg they see as a threat.
Regulators should be about plugging known safety holes for both private and AOC ops but thats what should happen but doesnt, there are too many other agendas involved.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 17th Jul 2010 at 14:38.