And of course let us not forget the punitive & oppressive attitude that emanates from within the flydubai's Flight Safety Department, a department that is headed-up by an onerous weasel of a man. Someone who engenders ZERO RESPECT FROM ANY PILOT WITHIN THE COMPANY! A man for who, upon inspection of his FAA license, it can be revealed that his only
Type Rating is held as a 'CPL' - not ATPL - aboard a military transport aircraft, with no FAA record of him ever having been type-rated as a Commander / ATPL of a Public Transport jet.
For our JAA Licensed readers: the USA FAA do not require a F/O to be Type Rated, whereas Captains must be Type-Rated, at ATPL level.
And if you don't believe me on this, do go ahead and look it up on the FAA's pilot certification website. First login to this site and fill in the details
here and then click on this
link or copy paste it into your web address field. With regards to a FAA type rating: C/ = Commercial pilot and L-300 = a stretched ‘civilian’ version of the Lockeed C-141. Note that this information is freely available within the Public Domain - rather than being anything to do with Walter Mitty 'Black Ops'.
Now as for this muppets supposed previous 'military credentials', being reported that he was once a Colonel in the US Air Force, a quote by Groucho Marx comes immediately to mind (
"Military Intelligence, is a contradiction is terms" ! ) and he seems a classic example of the '
Peter Principal', of someone being promoted to their innate level of incompetence! In this case, someone qualified only through having attended various 'courses' but who has no real 'hands-on' experience of the safety task he is charged with managing. He certainly doesn't fly-the-line and neither is he Type-Rated on the aircraft type that we fly.
Without doubt, the epitome of a "Yes!" man, and management no doubt love him when he suggests that places like Kabul are actually completely risk free, so much so that he'd even be willing to take his family on holiday there! Go figure?
Obviously someone with little or no integrity. Some might say a
cretin. The sooner this fcukwit leaves the UAE the better it will be for the company, and especially so for the integrity of the flight-safety department!