Mast Bumper's Question
Yes - MB; a good question indeed. Not to be too cheeky but your location "over there" probably doesn't mean "over HERE" too (in Asia) but it could be a different attitude here. THis being said, it has been trickling around for a number of months now that almost the entire group of pilots there in KL had difficulty getting through their training. That being said, practice OEI procedures are probably much more difficult than the real ones due to them being done in the worst possible time to occur. Balance this with the chances of an actual engine failure ever happening in a pilot's career, it could be argued that it is best never to practice the procedure. Certainly their SOP's should be reviewed and revised if necessary. In any case, I am sure that their insurance rate will be increased quite a bit immediately and could potentially be a big commercial factor for them until they demonstrate a complete change to conducting operations safely - revenue and non-rev flight . . . It would be interesting to hear from someone directly inside Weststar. My only in is with DCA :-(