Somebody above (victor 2?) suggested this was an IR issue not a safety issue and suggested Joe Eakins himself should be sued!!!!....c'mon please...
From my standpoint it's the
biggest bloody safety issue there is. I don't work for the airline in question. I live in Asia. I have seen what stupid managers do to save money - employ undertrained pilots to expand businesses quickly and/or circumvent established training & experience practices. Nice idea but it doesn't work.
Have you heard of Adam Air?
Perhaps Lion Air?
They don't exist anymore but you
will see them on Air Crash Investigators on TV. They had idiot managers who cut costs at every corner.
Viva Macau, Grand Air (Philippines), Sempati, Far Eastern Air Transport (Taiwan)? All here not so long ago and all gone - there are many more but I forget their names.
I would dearly love not to see any 'Australian' airline on that list. There is a suggestion I believe that this is a real possibility.
Consequently, if it needed any explaining, This is not an IR issue it is a very grave safety matter. How the hell anybody should suggest Joe Eakins be sued I cannot fathom - let alone this call coming from (allegedly) one of our own on PPRUNE
.